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Claytonia sarmentosa

Alaska spring-beauty, creeping spring beauty
Habit Plants perennial, with minute, tuberous body, producing rhizomes and stolons; rhizomes 0.5–3 mm diam.; periderm absent.
Stems

1–20 cm.
Leaves

basal leaves 1–15 cm, blade elliptic to spatulate, 1–8 × 1–2 cm;

cauline leaves sessile, blade lanceolate to ovate, 2 times or less longer than broad, 1–2 cm.
Inflorescences

ebracteate.
Flowers

15–20 mm diam.;

sepals 6–8 mm;

petals pink to magenta with yellow blotch at base, 10–16 mm;

ovules 6.
Seeds

(1–)6, 2–4 mm, shiny and smooth;

elaiosome prominent, 2–3 mm.
2n

= 10, 12, 16, 24.

Claytonia sarmentosa
Phenology Flowering May–Aug.
Habitat Moist tundra and meadows
Elevation 0-2000 m (0-6600 ft)
Distribution
from FNA
AK; BC; YT; Russia
[BONAP county map]
Discussion

Claytonia sarmentosa reproduces almost entirely from stolons and rhizomes.

(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
Source FNA vol. 4, p. 474.
Parent taxa 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. saxosa, C. scammaniana, C. sibirica, C. tuberosa, C. umbellata, C. virginica, C. washingtoniana
Synonyms Montia sarmentosa
Name authority C. A. Meyer: Nouv. Mém. Soc. Imp. Naturalistes Moscou 1: 137. (1829)
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