Claytonia sibirica |
Claytonia megarhiza |
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candy flower, pink purslane, Siberian miner's-lettuce, Siberian spring-beauty, western springbeauty |
alpine spring-beauty, fell-fields claytonia |
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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 |
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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 |
AK; CA; ID; MT; OR; WA; BC; Eurasia (Russia)
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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. |
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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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