Claytonia perfoliata |
Claytonia washingtoniana |
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Indian lettuce, miner's-lettuce, miner's-lettuce spring-beauty, winter purslane |
Lake Washington claytonia, Lake Washington miner's lettuce, Lake Washington springbeauty, Suksdorf's Spring beauty, Washington spring-beauty |
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Habit | Plants annual, with minute, tuberous bodies; periderm absent. | Plants annual, with minute, tuberous body; periderm absent. | ||||||||
Stems | 5–50 cm. |
3–15 cm. |
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Leaves | basal leaves in suberect to erect, seldom flattened rosettes, petiolate, 1–30 cm, blade often with weak red pigmentation, broadly rhombic to deltate or reniform, 1–7 × 0.5–5(–6) cm, apex obtuse to apiculate, mucro 1–3 mm; cauline leaves sessile, blade perfoliate or cleft or notched, 10 cm diam. or less. |
basal leaves petiolate, 2–30 cm, blade rhombic or ovate, 2–3 cm; cauline leaves sessile, distinct or slightly connate on 1 side only, blade ovate, 1–3 cm. |
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Inflorescences | 1-bracteate; bract leaflike, 0.5–15 mm. |
multibracteate, or with 2–several bracts near base of inflorescence; bracts leaflike, 2–10 mm. |
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Flowers | 3–10 mm; sepals 1.5–4 mm; petals pink or white, 2–5 mm; ovules 3. |
4–8 mm diam.; sepals 2–3.5 mm; petals pink, 3–4 mm; ovules 3. |
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Seeds | 2–5 mm, shiny and smooth; elaiosome 1–3 mm. |
1–2 mm diam., shiny and smooth; elaiosome 1 mm. |
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2n | = 12, 24, 36, 48, 60. |
= 24. |
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Claytonia perfoliata |
Claytonia washingtoniana |
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Phenology | Flowering Jan–Jun. | |||||||||
Habitat | Coastal bluffs and disturbed places associated with red alder and moss mats in boulders and cliffs of moist coastal forests | |||||||||
Elevation | 0-500 m (0-1600 ft) | |||||||||
Distribution |
AZ; CA; CO; ID; MT; NM; NV; OR; UT; WA; WY; BC; Central America (Guatemala); adventive in Europe; Pacific Islands (New Zealand)
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CA; OR; WA; BC
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Discussion | Subspecies 3 (3 in the flora). (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Claytonia washingtoniana is a fertile hybrid between C. sibirica and C. perfoliata. of conservation concern (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
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Source | FNA vol. 4, p. 472. | FNA vol. 4, p. 475. | ||||||||
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Synonyms | Montia perfoliata | Montia washingtoniana | ||||||||
Name authority | Donn ex Willdenow: Sp. Pl. 2: 1186. (1798) | (Suksdorf) Suksdorf: Werdenda 1: 10. (1923) | ||||||||
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