How to Plant and Grow Miner’s Lettuce (Claytonia)
Claytoniaspp. As a adolescent out on a rise on a cloudy March Clarence Day , I came across a plant that had strange round leaves , each with a bow sticking right through the middle and a flyspeck white efflorescence at the top . I was out hunting for ghost township , but I ’d found something much more exciting . I ’d see about the legendary “ miner ’s bread , ” a plant that prospectors carry with them into the gold mine during the day of the gold spate in western North America to help them avoid scorbutus ....