Flora of North America species comparison

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Claytonia rosea

Claytonia sibirica

Madrean springbeauty, Rocky Mountain Spring beauty, western springbeauty

candy flower, pink purslane, Siberian miner's-lettuce, Siberian spring-beauty, western springbeauty
Habit Plants perennial, with globose tubers 20–100 mm; periderm 5–10 mm. Plants annual or perennial, rhizomatous, producing bulblets or stolons; periderm absent.
Stems

2–15 cm.

5–40 cm.
Leaves

basal leaves sometimes absent, petiolate, blade linear to narrowly spatulate, 1–7 × 0.4–2 cm, apex acute to obtuse;

cauline leaves petiolate, blade linear, 2–5 cm, apex acute to obtuse.

basal leaves petiolate, 3–20 cm, blade linear, lanceolate, or deltate, 2–7 × 1–5 cm;

cauline leaves sessile, distinct, blade lanceolate to ovate, 1–5 cm.
Inflorescences

multibracteate, rarely 1-bracteate;

proximalmost bract leaflike, distal bracts reduced to membranous scales.

multibracteate;

bracts leaflike, 5–30 mm.
Flowers

8–14 mm diam.;

sepals 3–5 mm;

petals pink, rose, or magenta, 8–10 mm;

ovules 6.

8–20 mm diam., sepals 3–5 mm;

petals white, candy-striped, or pink, 8–14 mm;

ovules 3.
Seeds

2–3 mm, shiny and smooth;

elaiosome 1–2 mm.

(1–)3, 2–3 mm, shiny and smooth;

elaiosome 1 mm.
2n

= 16.

= 12, 24, 36.

Claytonia rosea

Claytonia sibirica
Phenology Flowering Feb–May. Flowering Feb–Aug.
Habitat Hillsides and mesas of montane ponderosa and Chihuahuan pine and oak belts Thickets of red alder, dogwood, vine-leaf maple, moist shaded coniferous forests
Elevation 800-2400 m (2600-7900 ft) 0-2000 m (0-6600 ft)
Distribution
from FNA
AZ; CO; NM; UT; Mexico
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from FNA
AK; CA; ID; MT; OR; WA; BC; Eurasia (Russia)
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Discussion

Claytonia rosea is morphologically distinct from C. lanceolata based on early cytological and ecological study of the two species by D. K. Halleck and D. Wiens (1966) and the author’s review of type material.

(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
Source FNA vol. 4, p. 472. FNA vol. 4, p. 474.
Parent taxa Portulacaceae > Claytonia Portulacaceae > Claytonia
Sibling taxa
C. acutifolia, C. arctica, C. arenicola, C. caroliniana, C. cordifolia, C. exigua, C. gypsophiloides, C. lanceolata, C. megarhiza, C. multiscapa, C. nevadensis, C. ogilviensis, C. palustris, C. parviflora, C. perfoliata, C. rubra, C. sarmentosa, C. saxosa, C. scammaniana, C. sibirica, C. tuberosa, C. umbellata, C. virginica, C. washingtoniana
C. acutifolia, C. arctica, C. arenicola, C. caroliniana, C. cordifolia, C. exigua, C. gypsophiloides, C. lanceolata, C. megarhiza, C. multiscapa, C. nevadensis, C. ogilviensis, C. palustris, C. parviflora, C. perfoliata, C. rosea, C. rubra, C. sarmentosa, C. saxosa, C. scammaniana, C. tuberosa, C. umbellata, C. virginica, C. washingtoniana
Synonyms C. lanceolata var. rosea Montia sibirica, Montia sibirica var. bulbifera, Montia sibirica var. heterophylla
Name authority Rydberg: Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 31: 404. (1904) Linnaeus: Sp. Pl. 1: 204. (1753)
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