Claytonia sibirica |
Claytonia sarmentosa |
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candy flower, pink purslane, Siberian miner's-lettuce, Siberian spring-beauty, western springbeauty |
Alaska spring-beauty, creeping spring beauty |
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Habit | Plants annual or perennial, rhizomatous, producing bulblets or stolons; periderm absent. | Plants perennial, with minute, tuberous body, producing rhizomes and stolons; rhizomes 0.5–3 mm diam.; periderm absent. |
Stems | 5–40 cm. |
1–20 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 1–15 cm, blade elliptic to spatulate, 1–8 × 1–2 cm; cauline leaves sessile, blade lanceolate to ovate, 2 times or less longer than broad, 1–2 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. |
15–20 mm diam.; sepals 6–8 mm; petals pink to magenta with yellow blotch at base, 10–16 mm; ovules 6. |
Seeds | (1–)3, 2–3 mm, shiny and smooth; elaiosome 1 mm. |
(1–)6, 2–4 mm, shiny and smooth; elaiosome prominent, 2–3 mm. |
2n | = 12, 24, 36. |
= 10, 12, 16, 24. |
Claytonia sibirica |
Claytonia sarmentosa |
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Phenology | Flowering Feb–Aug. | Flowering May–Aug. |
Habitat | Thickets of red alder, dogwood, vine-leaf maple, moist shaded coniferous forests | Moist tundra and meadows |
Elevation | 0-2000 m (0-6600 ft) | 0-2000 m (0-6600 ft) |
Distribution |
AK; CA; ID; MT; OR; WA; BC; Eurasia (Russia)
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AK; BC; YT; Russia |
Discussion | Claytonia sarmentosa reproduces almost entirely from stolons and rhizomes. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
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Source | FNA vol. 4, p. 474. | FNA vol. 4, p. 474. |
Parent taxa | Portulacaceae > Claytonia | Portulacaceae > Claytonia |
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Synonyms | Montia sibirica, Montia sibirica var. bulbifera, Montia sibirica var. heterophylla | Montia sarmentosa |
Name authority | Linnaeus: Sp. Pl. 1: 204. (1753) | C. A. Meyer: Nouv. Mém. Soc. Imp. Naturalistes Moscou 1: 137. (1829) |
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