Claytonia sibirica |
Claytonia caroliniana |
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candy flower, pink purslane, Siberian miner's-lettuce, Siberian spring-beauty, western springbeauty |
Carolina spring-beauty |
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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 |
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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 |
AK; CA; ID; MT; OR; WA; BC; Eurasia (Russia)
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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 |
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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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