What is "montia fontana"

Water chickweed \Wa"ter chick"weed`\ (Bot.) A small annual plant ( Montia fontana) growing in wet places in southern regions.

Montia fontana, commonly known as blinks or water blinks, water chickweed or annual water miner's lettuce, is a herbaceous annual plant of the genus Montia. It is a common plant that can be found in wet environments around the globe, from the tropics to the Arctic. It is quite variable in morphology, taking a variety of forms. It is sometimes aquatic.