Claytonia sibirica |
Claytonia cordifolia |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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 |
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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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