Claytonia sibirica |
Claytonia umbellata |
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candy flower, pink purslane, Siberian miner's-lettuce, Siberian spring-beauty, western springbeauty |
Great Basin claytonia, Great Basin springbeauty, umbellate springbeauty |
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Habit | Plants annual or perennial, rhizomatous, producing bulblets or stolons; periderm absent. | Plants perennial, with globose tubers 10–50 mm diam., mature plants rhizomatous; periderm 5–20 mm. |
Stems | 5–40 cm. |
2–25 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 somtimes absent, petiolate, 5–25 cm, blade elliptic to rhombic, 1–3 × 0.2–2 cm; cauline leaves petiolate, blade elliptic to ovate 1.5–5 × 1–3 cm, abruptly tapered at base. |
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. |
8–14 mm diam.; sepals 5–7 mm; petals pink to magenta, 6–12 mm; ovules 6. |
Seeds | (1–)3, 2–3 mm, shiny and smooth; elaiosome 1 mm. |
1–2 mm, smooth and shiny; elaiosome 1 mm or less. |
2n | = 12, 24, 36. |
= 16. |
Claytonia sibirica |
Claytonia umbellata |
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Phenology | Flowering Feb–Aug. | Flowering May–Aug. |
Habitat | Thickets of red alder, dogwood, vine-leaf maple, moist shaded coniferous forests | North- and east-facing talus and scree slopes of drier mountain areas, subalpine coniferous forests |
Elevation | 0-2000 m (0-6600 ft) | 100-3000 m (300-9800 ft) |
Distribution |
AK; CA; ID; MT; OR; WA; BC; Eurasia (Russia)
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CA; OR
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Discussion | Of conservation concern. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
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Source | FNA vol. 4, p. 474. | FNA vol. 4, p. 475. |
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) | S. Watson: Botany (Fortieth Parallel), 43, plate 6, figs. 4, 5. (1871) |
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