Montia fontana, blinks is a herbaceous annual to perennial plant that grows in freshwater springs in upland regions, and in seasonally damp acid grassland in the lowlands.

Blinks is an annual to perennial prostrate herb with branching stems, sometimes forming mats up to 50 cm across in short, seasonally damp grassland or floating in streams and hollows.

The inflorescence consists of a terminal cyme of two or three tiny white flowers 2–3 mm in diameter with five petals, two sepals, 3-5 stamens, 1-3 styles, each with one stigma.

[11][10] The threat status of Blinks globally and in Europe is LC,[12] as it is in Britain,[13] where it is common and widespread in the north and west, becoming scattered and rare towards the south and east.

[14] Blinks grows in a wide range of wetland habitats, from permanently wet pools, springs and streamsides to winter-wet, sandy grassland.

[15] Its Ellenberg values in Britain are L = 7, F = 9, R = 5, N = 3 and S = 0, which show that it occurs in fairly sunny places with slightly acid damp soils and low nutrient conditions.

chondrosperma) in summer-dry, rain-fed U1 Festuca ovina-Agrostis capillaris-Rumex acetosella grassland in sandy, more lowland habitats.

[25] There is a species of vinegar fly, Scaptomyza graminum whose larvae produce leaf mines in blinks; it has been recorded in Britain and Europe.