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

alpine spring-beauty, fell-fields claytonia

Habit Plants annual or perennial, rhizomatous, producing bulblets or stolons; periderm absent. Plants perennial, with stout, woody caudices; periderm 5–12 mm.
Stems

5–40 cm.

5–25 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 sessile, dilated at base into broad, succulent sheath, blade rhombic to oblanceolate, 2–10 × 0.4–2.8 cm, apex obtuse;

cauline leaves sessile, blade oblanceolate, 2–10 × 2–5 mm.

Inflorescences

multibracteate;

bracts leaflike, 5–30 mm.

multibracteate;

bracts subtending pedicels, apex obtuse.

Flowers

8–20 mm diam., sepals 3–5 mm;

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

ovules 3.

12–20 mm diam;

sepals 6–8 mm;

petals white, pink, or rose, 5–20 × 3–8 mm;

ovules 6.

Seeds

(1–)3, 2–3 mm, shiny and smooth;

elaiosome 1 mm.

2–3 mm diam., shiny and smooth;

elaiosome 1 mm or less.

2n

= 12, 24, 36.

= 12, 16, 24, 32, 34, 36.

Claytonia sibirica

Claytonia megarhiza

Phenology Flowering Feb–Aug. Flowering May–Aug.
Habitat Thickets of red alder, dogwood, vine-leaf maple, moist shaded coniferous forests Talus, scree, gravelly slopes
Elevation 0-2000 m (0-6600 ft) 2000-4000 m (6600-13100 ft)
Distribution
from FNA
AK; CA; ID; MT; OR; WA; BC; Eurasia (Russia)
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from FNA
CA; CO; ID; MT; NM; NV; OR; UT; WA; WY; AB; BC; NT
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Source FNA vol. 4, p. 474. FNA vol. 4, p. 469.
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. cordifolia, C. exigua, C. gypsophiloides, C. lanceolata, 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. arctica var. megarhiza, C. megarhiza var. bellidifolia, C. megarhiza var. nivalis
Name authority Linnaeus: Sp. Pl. 1: 204. (1753) (A. Gray) Parry ex S. Watson: Smithsonian Misc. Collect 258: 118. (1878)
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