Claytonia sibirica |
Claytonia arctica |
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candy flower, pink purslane, Siberian miner's-lettuce, Siberian spring-beauty, western springbeauty |
arctic claytonia, arctic springbeauty |
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Habit | Plants annual or perennial, rhizomatous, producing bulblets or stolons; periderm absent. | Plants perennial, with stout to slender, often fusiform, woody caudices; periderm 1–12 mm. |
Stems | 5–40 cm. |
1–10 cm. |
Leaves | 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. |
basal leaves petiolate, often dilated at base, blade spatulate to elliptic, 2–15 × 0.5–1 cm, thinly herbaceous, apex obtuse; cauline leaves sessile, blade elliptic or oval, 0.5–2 × 0.5–1 cm. |
Inflorescences | multibracteate; bracts leaflike, 5–30 mm. |
ebracteate. |
Flowers | 8–20 mm diam., sepals 3–5 mm; petals white, candy-striped, or pink, 8–14 mm; ovules 3. |
12–20 mm diam.; sepals 6–8 mm; petals yellow or white with yellow blotch at base, 10–12 × 3–8 mm; ovules 6. |
Seeds | (1–)3, 2–3 mm, shiny and smooth; elaiosome 1 mm. |
2–3 mm diam., shiny and smooth to tuberculate; elaiosome 1–2 mm. |
2n | = 12, 24, 36. |
= 10. |
Claytonia sibirica |
Claytonia arctica |
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Phenology | Flowering Feb–Aug. | Flowering Jun–Jul. |
Habitat | Thickets of red alder, dogwood, vine-leaf maple, moist shaded coniferous forests | Snow beds in talus, rocks, and gravels |
Elevation | 0-2000 m (0-6600 ft) | 0-2000 m (0-6600 ft) |
Distribution |
AK; CA; ID; MT; OR; WA; BC; Eurasia (Russia)
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AK; Russia |
Source | FNA vol. 4, p. 474. | FNA vol. 4, p. 467. |
Parent taxa | Portulacaceae > Claytonia | Portulacaceae > Claytonia |
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Synonyms | Montia sibirica, Montia sibirica var. bulbifera, Montia sibirica var. heterophylla | |
Name authority | Linnaeus: Sp. Pl. 1: 204. (1753) | Adams: Mém. Soc. Imp. Naturalistes Moscou 5: 94. (1817) |
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