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

broad leaf springbeauty, cordate-leaf spring beauty, heart-leaf spring-beauty

Habit Plants annual or perennial, rhizomatous, producing bulblets or stolons; periderm absent. Plants perennial, rhizomatous; rhizomes 4–8 mm diam.; periderm absent.
Stems

5–40 cm.

5–30 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, blade ovate to deltate or cordate, 2–7 × 1–5 cm;

cauline leaves sessile, blade ovate, 1–4 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.

10–15 mm diam.;

sepals 4–8 mm;

petals white, 8–12 mm;

ovules 6.

Seeds

(1–)3, 2–3 mm, shiny and smooth;

elaiosome 1 mm.

(1–)6, 1–2 mm diam., shiny and smooth;

elaiosome 1 mm or less.

2n

= 12, 24, 36.

= 10, 20.

Claytonia sibirica

Claytonia cordifolia

Phenology Flowering Feb–Aug. Flowering May–Sep.
Habitat Thickets of red alder, dogwood, vine-leaf maple, moist shaded coniferous forests Meadows, seeps
Elevation 0-2000 m (0-6600 ft) 500-2000 m (1600-6600 ft)
Distribution
from FNA
AK; CA; ID; MT; OR; WA; BC; Eurasia (Russia)
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CA; ID; MT; NV; OR; UT; WA; BC
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Source FNA vol. 4, p. 474. FNA vol. 4.
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. caroliniana, 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. sibirica var. cordifolia, Montia cordifolia
Name authority Linnaeus: Sp. Pl. 1: 204. (1753) S. Watson: Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts 17: 365. (1882)
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