Claytonia sibirica |
Claytonia parviflora |
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candy flower, pink purslane, Siberian miner's-lettuce, Siberian spring-beauty, western springbeauty |
Indian-lettuce, linear leaf springbeauty, narrow leaf miner's lettuce, small-flower miner's lettuce, small-flower springbeauty, streambank spring-beauty |
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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. |
5–30 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 green or pink, not glaucous; basal leaves petiolate, blade linear (sometimes filiform), narrowly lanceolate, spatulate, or rhombic, 1–15 × 0.5–1 cm; cauline leaves sessile, blade linear and 0.5–4 cm, or perfoliate and 10 cm or less diam. |
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Inflorescences | multibracteate; bracts leaflike, 5–30 mm. |
1-bracteate; bract 0.5–15 mm, leaflike. |
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Flowers | 8–20 mm diam., sepals 3–5 mm; petals white, candy-striped, or pink, 8–14 mm; ovules 3. |
2–12 mm diam.; sepals 1.5–4 mm; petals white or pink, 2–8 mm; ovules 3. |
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Seeds | (1–)3, 2–3 mm, shiny and smooth; elaiosome 1 mm. |
1–2.5 mm diam., shiny and smooth or with low tubercles, not pebbly; elaiosome 1–3 mm. |
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2n | = 12, 24, 36. |
= 12, 24, 36, 48. |
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Claytonia sibirica |
Claytonia parviflora |
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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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AZ; CA; ID; MT; NV; OR; UT; WA; BC
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Discussion | Subspecies 4 (4 in the flora). (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
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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. perfoliata var. parviflora, Montia perfoliata var. parviflora | ||||||||||||
Name authority | Linnaeus: Sp. Pl. 1: 204. (1753) | Douglas ex Hooker: Fl. Bor.-Amer. 1: 225, plate 73. (1832) | ||||||||||||
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