Claytonia rubra |
Claytonia gypsophiloides |
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cushion miner's-lettuce, erubescent lettuce, erubescent miner's-lettuce, red miners lettuce, red stem spring beauty, red-stem miner's lettuce |
Coast Range claytonia, gypsum spring beauty |
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Habit | Plants annual, sometimes overwintering and biennial, with minute, shortened, tuberous bodies; periderm absent. | Plants annual, with minute, tuberous bodies; periderm absent. | ||||
Stems | 1–10 cm. |
5–15 cm. |
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Leaves | basal leaves in flattened to suberect rosettes, 0.5–6 cm, blade with strong red pigmentation even in juvenile plants, narrowly rhombic to ovate, spatulate, or trullate, 0.5–1.5 × 0.5–1 cm, apex obtuse; cauline leaves distinct or connate on 1 side or perfoliate, sessile, blade ovate. |
blades gray, beige, or pink, glaucous; basal blades linear (almost filiform), 3–12 × 0.05–0.1 cm; cauline leaves sessile, blades distinct and spatulate or partially connate into horn shape, 0.2–1.5 cm, or perfoliate, 0.2–1.5 cm wide. |
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Inflorescences | 1-bracteate; bract leaflike, 0.5–15 mm. |
1-bracteate; bract leaflike, 0.5–15 mm. |
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Flowers | 2–5 mm diam.; sepals 1.5–2.5 mm; petals 2–3 mm, pinkish white to white; ovules 3. |
6–12 mm diam.; sepals 2–3 mm; petals pink or white, 6–10 mm; ovules 3. |
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Seeds | 2–3 mm diam., shiny and smooth; elaiosome 1–2 mm. |
1–2 mm diam., tuberculate; elaiosome 0.5–1 mm. |
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2n | = 12, 24, 36. |
= 16. |
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Claytonia rubra |
Claytonia gypsophiloides |
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Phenology | Flowering Feb–May. | |||||
Habitat | Moist areas on serpentine in open glades or slopes of chaparral and foothill pine woodlands | |||||
Elevation | 100-1200 m (300-3900 ft) | |||||
Distribution |
CA; CO; ID; MT; NV; OR; SD; UT; WA; WY; BC
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CA
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Discussion | Subspecies 2 (2 in the flora). (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
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Key |
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Source | FNA vol. 4, p. 473. | FNA vol. 4, p. 468. | ||||
Parent taxa | Portulacaceae > Claytonia | Portulacaceae > Claytonia | ||||
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Synonyms | Montia rubra | C. nubigena, Montia gypsophiloides, Montia perfoliata var. nubigena | ||||
Name authority | (Howell) Tidestrom: Contr. U.S. Natl. Herb. 25: 188. (1925) | Fischer & C. A. Meyer: Index Seminum (St. Petersburg) 2: 33. (1835) | ||||
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