Claytonia sibirica |
Claytonia exigua |
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candy flower, pink purslane, Siberian miner's-lettuce, Siberian spring-beauty, western springbeauty |
little spring beauty, pale claytonia, pale spring-beauty, pallid claytonia, serpentine springbeauty |
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Habit | Plants annual or perennial, rhizomatous, producing bulblets or stolons; periderm absent. | Plants annual, with minute, tuberous bodies; periderm absent. | ||||
Stems | 5–40 cm. |
5–10 cm. |
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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. |
blades gray, beige, or pink, glaucous; basal leaf blades linear or spatulate, 1–6 × 0.05–0.5 cm; cauline leaves sessile, distinct or partially connate into horn shape, blade spatulate, 0.2–4.5 cm, or subperfoliate, blade 0.2–4.5 cm wide. |
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Inflorescences | multibracteate; bracts leaflike, 5–30 mm. |
1-bracteate; bract leaflike, 0.5–15 mm. |
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Flowers | 8–20 mm diam., sepals 3–5 mm; petals white, candy-striped, or pink, 8–14 mm; ovules 3. |
3–5 mm diam.; sepals 1.5–2.5 mm; petals white or pinkish, 2–5 mm; ovules 3. |
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Seeds | (1–)3, 2–3 mm, shiny and smooth; elaiosome 1 mm. |
0.5–1 mm, tuberculate; elaiosome inserted in wide notch of seed coat, 0.5–1 mm. |
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2n | = 12, 24, 36. |
= 16, 32, 48. |
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Claytonia sibirica |
Claytonia exigua |
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Phenology | Flowering Feb–Aug. | |||||
Habitat | Thickets of red alder, dogwood, vine-leaf maple, moist shaded coniferous forests | |||||
Elevation | 0-2000 m (0-6600 ft) | |||||
Distribution |
AK; CA; ID; MT; OR; WA; BC; Eurasia (Russia)
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CA; NV; OR; WA; BC
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Discussion | Subspecies 2 (2 in the flora). (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
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Key |
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Source | FNA vol. 4, p. 474. | FNA vol. 4, p. 468. | ||||
Parent taxa | Portulacaceae > Claytonia | Portulacaceae > Claytonia | ||||
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Synonyms | Montia sibirica, Montia sibirica var. bulbifera, Montia sibirica var. heterophylla | |||||
Name authority | Linnaeus: Sp. Pl. 1: 204. (1753) | Douglas ex Torrey & A. Gray: Fl. N. Amer. 1: 200. (1838) | ||||
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