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Claytonia sibirica

Claytonia washingtoniana

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

Lake Washington claytonia, Lake Washington miner's lettuce, Lake Washington springbeauty, Suksdorf's Spring beauty, Washington spring-beauty
Habit Plants annual or perennial, rhizomatous, producing bulblets or stolons; periderm absent. Plants annual, with minute, tuberous body; periderm absent.
Stems

5–40 cm.

3–15 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 petiolate, 2–30 cm, blade rhombic or ovate, 2–3 cm;

cauline leaves sessile, distinct or slightly connate on 1 side only, blade ovate, 1–3 cm.
Inflorescences

multibracteate;

bracts leaflike, 5–30 mm.

multibracteate, or with 2–several bracts near base of inflorescence;

bracts leaflike, 2–10 mm.
Flowers

8–20 mm diam., sepals 3–5 mm;

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

ovules 3.

4–8 mm diam.;

sepals 2–3.5 mm;

petals pink, 3–4 mm;

ovules 3.
Seeds

(1–)3, 2–3 mm, shiny and smooth;

elaiosome 1 mm.

1–2 mm diam., shiny and smooth;

elaiosome 1 mm.
2n

= 12, 24, 36.

= 24.

Claytonia sibirica

Claytonia washingtoniana
Phenology Flowering Feb–Aug. Flowering Jan–Jun.
Habitat Thickets of red alder, dogwood, vine-leaf maple, moist shaded coniferous forests Coastal bluffs and disturbed places associated with red alder and moss mats in boulders and cliffs of moist coastal forests
Elevation 0-2000 m (0-6600 ft) 0-500 m (0-1600 ft)
Distribution
from FNA
AK; CA; ID; MT; OR; WA; BC; Eurasia (Russia)
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from FNA
CA; OR; WA; BC
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Discussion

Claytonia washingtoniana is a fertile hybrid between C. sibirica and C. perfoliata.

of conservation concern

(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
Source FNA vol. 4, p. 474. FNA vol. 4, p. 475.
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. megarhiza, 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
Synonyms Montia sibirica, Montia sibirica var. bulbifera, Montia sibirica var. heterophylla Montia washingtoniana
Name authority Linnaeus: Sp. Pl. 1: 204. (1753) (Suksdorf) Suksdorf: Werdenda 1: 10. (1923)
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