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intermountain miner's-lettuce, intermountain miner's-lettuce spring-beauty, miner's lettuce

Leaves

blades livid or beet red or purplish abaxially and gray-green with epidermal gas pockets adaxially, pockets remain preserved upon drying, or blades green;

basal leaf rosettes suberect to flattened, 20–30 cm, blade ovate to broadly rhombic, apex obtuse;

cauline leaves perfoliate;

blade 1–5 cm diam., margins often notched or cleft.

Seeds

3–4 mm.

2n

= 24, 36, 48.

Claytonia perfoliata subsp. intermontana

Phenology Flowering Apr–Jun.
Habitat Heavily grazed shrubland and woodland
Elevation 500-2000 m (1600-6600 ft)
Distribution
from FNA
AZ; CA; CO; ID; MT; NV; OR; UT; WA; WY; BC
[BONAP county map]
Source FNA vol. 4, p. 472.
Parent taxa Portulacaceae > Claytonia > Claytonia perfoliata
Sibling taxa
C. perfoliata subsp. mexicana, C. perfoliata subsp. perfoliata
Name authority John M. Miller & K. L. Chambers: Novon 3: 269. (1993)
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