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Claytonia
''Claytonia'' (spring beauty) is a genus of flowering plants native to Asia, North America, and Central America. The vitamin-rich leaves can be eaten raw or cooked, and the tubers can be prepared like potatoes. Description The plants are somewhat fleshy and only a few centimeters in height. The flower heads are about in diameter. Taxonomy The genus was formerly included in the purslane family ( Portulacaceae), but with the adoption of the APG IV system, in 2009 it was moved to the family Montiaceae. A number of the species were formerly treated in the related genus '' Montia''. A comprehensive scientific study of ''Claytonia'' was published in 2006. Species , Kew's Plants of the World Online lists 33 accepted species: Etymology The genus is named after John Clayton, who collected specimens of various plants in North America and distributed them to botanists in Europe. Distribution and habitat The genus is primarily native to the mountain chains of Asia and North America ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Claytonia Arenicola
''Claytonia'' (spring beauty) is a genus of flowering plants native to Asia, North America, and Central America. The vitamin-rich leaves can be eaten raw or cooked, and the Tuber, tubers can be prepared like potatoes. Description The plants are somewhat fleshy and only a few centimeters in height. The flower heads are about in diameter. Taxonomy The genus was formerly included in the purslane family (Portulacaceae), but with the adoption of the APG IV system, in 2009 it was moved to the family Montiaceae. A number of the species were formerly treated in the related genus ''Montia''. A comprehensive scientific study of ''Claytonia'' was published in 2006. Species , Kew's Plants of the World Online lists 33 accepted species: Etymology The genus is named after John Clayton (botanist), John Clayton, who collected specimens of various plants in North America and distributed them to botanists in Europe. Distribution and habitat The genus is primarily native to the mountain chai ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Claytonia Multiscapa
''Claytonia'' (spring beauty) is a genus of flowering plants native to Asia, North America, and Central America. The vitamin-rich leaves can be eaten raw or cooked, and the tubers can be prepared like potatoes. Description The plants are somewhat fleshy and only a few centimeters in height. The flower heads are about in diameter. Taxonomy The genus was formerly included in the purslane family (Portulacaceae), but with the adoption of the APG IV system, in 2009 it was moved to the family Montiaceae. A number of the species were formerly treated in the related genus '' Montia''. A comprehensive scientific study of ''Claytonia'' was published in 2006. Species , Kew's Plants of the World Online lists 33 accepted species: Etymology The genus is named after John Clayton, who collected specimens of various plants in North America and distributed them to botanists in Europe. Distribution and habitat The genus is primarily native to the mountain chains of Asia and North America. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Claytonia Lanceolata
''Claytonia lanceolata'' is a species of wildflower in the family Montiaceae, known by the common names lanceleaf springbeauty and western springbeauty. Description This somewhat rare plant is native to western North America, growing in the sagebrush steppe and foothills up to alpine slopes. It thrives in the rocky soil of alpine climates where the snow never melts. It is a perennial herb growing from a tuber one to three centimeters wide. It produces a short, erect stem reaching a maximum height of . At its smallest the plant bears only its first two rounded leaves before flowering and dying back. Its thick leaves are helpful for storing water. If it continues to grow it produces two thick, lance-shaped leaves further up the stem. The star-shaped flowers come in inflorescences of three to fifteen blooms and they are white or pink, often with veiny stripes and yellow blotches near the base of each petal. The fruit is a small capsule containing a few seeds, which are black and sh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Claytonia Caroliniana
''Claytonia caroliniana'', the Carolina springbeauty, is an herbaceous perennial in the family Montiaceae. It was formerly placed in the Portulacaceae. Its native range is eastern and central North America. It is most commonly found in the New England area of the United States but its habitat extends from Ontario and a northern limit in the Cape Anguille Mountains of Newfoundland and south to Alabama. It grows approximately 6 inches tall in forests of the Appalachian Mountains and piedmont Description ''Claytonia caroliniana'' is a flowering, woodland perennial herb. It grows from March though June and is one of the earliest spring ephemerals. The plant grows from spherical underground tubers in light humus. They sprout and bloom before the tree canopy develops. Once the area is shaded, the plants wither leaving only the tuberous roots underground. The flowers consist of five pink and purple petals. Dark pink veins accent the petals and give them a striped appearance. The carp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Claytonia Virginica
''Claytonia virginica'', the Virginia springbeauty, eastern spring beauty, grass-flower narrowleaf springbeauty or fairy spud, is an herbaceous perennial plant in the family Montiaceae. Its native range is eastern North America. Its scientific name honors Colonial Virginian botanist John Clayton (botanist), John Clayton (1694–1773). Description Springbeauty is a perennial plant, overwintering through a tuberous root. It is a trailing plant growing to tall. The leaves are slender lanceolate, long and broad, with a long Petiole (botany), petiole. The flowers are in diameter with five pale pink or white (rarely yellow) petals, and reflect UV light. It has a raceme inflorescence, in which its flowers branch off of the shoot. The individual flowers bloom for three days, although the five stamens on each flower are only active for a single day. Flowering occurs between March and May depending on part of its range and weather. The seeds are between in diameter and a shiny black. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Claytonia Megarhiza
''Claytonia megarhiza'' is a species of wildflower in the family Montiaceae known by the common names fell-fields claytonia and alpine springbeauty. The specific epithet ''megarhiza'' is Greek for "large roots". Range and habitat ''Claytonia megarhiza'' is native to western North America from northwestern Canada to New Mexico, where it grows in rock crevices and talus habitats in subalpine and alpine climates. The species is known from summits and slopes of North America's highest mountains including the Redstone Mountains of the Canadian Northwest Territories, disjunct south to the central and southern Rocky Mountains reaching a southern limit in the Sangre de Cristo Mountains. In the Wenatchee Mountains of Washington State it is often found on serpentine. Hitchcock, C.L. and Cronquist, A. 2018. Flora of the Pacific Northwest, 2nd Edition, p. 56. University of Washington Press, Seattle. Description This is a perennial herb growing from a thick, scaly caudex topped with a stem ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Claytonia Nevadensis
''Claytonia nevadensis'', known by the common names Sierra springbeauty and Sierra Nevada claytonia, is a species of wildflower in the family Montiaceae. The evolutionary relationship of ''Claytonia nevadensis'' to other claytonias is a subject of debate and ongoing genetic studies. Sierra springbeauties are diploid with a chromosome base number of x = 7 Distribution The wildflower is endemic to northern California and south-central Oregon.Chambers, K. L. 1963. Claytonia nevadensis in Oregon. Leaflets Western Botany 10: 1-8. It is native to the Sierra Nevada as far south as Farewell Gap; and is indigenous to the Sweetwater Range, Trinity Mountains, Inner Klamath Range, southern Cascade Range, and northeast to the Warner Mountains and Steens Mountain of the Harney Basin Region of Oregon. It grows in subalpine habitats such as scree and gravelly snowmelt stream banks. Description ''Claytonia nevadensis'' is a perennial herb growing from a network of fleshy rhizomes with a s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Claytonia Acutifolia
''Claytonia arctica'', the Arctic spring beauty, is a species of flowering plant native to Siberia including the Taimyr Peninsula and Wrangel Island and eastward to the Aleutians and Bering Sea islands of Alaska. A plant species of the circumpolar Arctic, it has been confused with '' Claytonia sarmentosa'' and '' C. scammaniana''. A taxonomic revision including a lectotypification of ''Claytonia arctica'' was published in 2006.Miller, J. M. and K. L. Chambers. 2006. Systematics of ''Claytonia'' (Portulacaceae). Systematic Botany Monographs 78: 1-234. References External linksFlora North America Treatment {{Taxonbar, from=Q17248583 arctica Arctica, or Arctida is a hypothetical ancient continent which formed approximately 2.565 billion years ago in the Neoarchean era. It was made of Archaean cratons, including the Siberian Craton, with its Anabar/ Aldan shields in Siberia, ... Plants described in 1817 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
