Claytonia sibirica |
Claytonia arenicola |
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candy flower, pink purslane, Siberian miner's-lettuce, Siberian spring-beauty, western springbeauty |
Henderson's claytonia, sand claytonia, sand springbeauty, Snake Canyon springbeauty |
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Habit | Plants annual or perennial, rhizomatous, producing bulblets or stolons; periderm absent. | Plants annual, with minute, tuberous body; periderm absent. |
Stems | 5–40 cm. |
2–10 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 leaf blades linear to narrowly lanceolate, 1–5 × 0.05–0.2 cm; cauline leaves sessile, blade linear, 1–3 cm. |
Inflorescences | multibracteate; bracts leaflike, 5–30 mm. |
multi-bracteate; proximalmost bract 5–10 mm, leaflike, distal bracts 1 mm or less, reduced to membranous scales. |
Flowers | 8–20 mm diam., sepals 3–5 mm; petals white, candy-striped, or pink, 8–14 mm; ovules 3. |
10–12 mm diam.; sepals 1.5–2.5 mm; petals white, pink, or candy-striped, 6–10 mm; ovules 6. |
Seeds | (1–)3, 2–3 mm, shiny and smooth; elaiosome 1 mm. |
(1–)6, 1–2 mm, shiny and smooth; elaiosome 1 mm or less. |
2n | = 12, 24, 36. |
= 12. |
Claytonia sibirica |
Claytonia arenicola |
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Phenology | Flowering Feb–Aug. | Flowering early Mar. |
Habitat | Thickets of red alder, dogwood, vine-leaf maple, moist shaded coniferous forests | Selaginella mats and crevices of cliffs and rock faces in Great Basin sagebrush and ponderosa pine belt |
Elevation | 0-2000 m (0-6600 ft) | 200-1200 m (700-3900 ft) |
Distribution |
AK; CA; ID; MT; OR; WA; BC; Eurasia (Russia)
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ID; MT; OR; WA
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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 | Montia arenicola |
Name authority | Linnaeus: Sp. Pl. 1: 204. (1753) | L. F. Henderson: Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 22: 49. (1895) |
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