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candy flower, pink purslane, Siberian miner's-lettuce, Siberian spring-beauty, western springbeauty

Carolina spring-beauty

Habit Plants annual or perennial, rhizomatous, producing bulblets or stolons; periderm absent. Plants perennial, with globose tubers 10–20 mm diam.; periderm 1–5 mm.
Stems

5–40 cm.

6–25 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 6–21, petiolate, blade elliptic or spatulate, 3–5 × 1–3 cm;

cauline leaves abruptly petiolate, blade lanceolate to spatulate or ovate, 4–8 × 0.5–2.5 cm.

Inflorescences

multibracteate;

bracts leaflike, 5–30 mm.

1-bracteate (rarely with 2 bracts).

Flowers

8–20 mm diam., sepals 3–5 mm;

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

ovules 3.

8–12 mm diam.;

sepals 3–5 mm;

petals white, pink, or candy-striped, 6–10 mm;

ovules 6.

Seeds

(1–)3, 2–3 mm, shiny and smooth;

elaiosome 1 mm.

2–4 mm, shiny and smooth;

elaiosome 1–2 mm.

2n

= 12, 24, 36.

= 16, 24, 25, 26, 27, 36, 38.

Claytonia sibirica

Claytonia caroliniana

Phenology Flowering Feb–Aug. Flowering Mar–Jun.
Habitat Thickets of red alder, dogwood, vine-leaf maple, moist shaded coniferous forests Wetlands and riparian hardwood forests
Elevation 0-2000 m (0-6600 ft) 0-1400 m (0-4600 ft)
Distribution
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AK; CA; ID; MT; OR; WA; BC; Eurasia (Russia)
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from FNA
CT; GA; IA; KY; MA; MD; ME; MI; MN; NC; NH; NY; PA; TN; VA; VT; WI; WV; NB; NF; NS; ON; PE; QC
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Source FNA vol. 4, p. 474. FNA vol. 4, p. 467.
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. rosea, C. rubra, C. sarmentosa, C. saxosa, C. scammaniana, C. tuberosa, C. umbellata, C. virginica, C. washingtoniana
C. acutifolia, C. arctica, C. arenicola, 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. sibirica, C. tuberosa, C. umbellata, C. virginica, C. washingtoniana
Synonyms Montia sibirica, Montia sibirica var. bulbifera, Montia sibirica var. heterophylla C. caroliniana var. lewisii, C. caroliniana var. spatulifolia
Name authority Linnaeus: Sp. Pl. 1: 204. (1753) Michaux: Fl. Bor.-Amer. 1: 160. (1803)
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