Claytonia sarmentosa |
Claytonia cordifolia |
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Alaska spring-beauty, creeping spring beauty |
broad leaf springbeauty, cordate-leaf spring beauty, heart-leaf spring-beauty |
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Habit | Plants perennial, with minute, tuberous body, producing rhizomes and stolons; rhizomes 0.5–3 mm diam.; periderm absent. | Plants perennial, rhizomatous; rhizomes 4–8 mm diam.; periderm absent. |
Stems | 1–20 cm. |
5–30 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. |
basal leaves petiolate, blade ovate to deltate or cordate, 2–7 × 1–5 cm; cauline leaves sessile, blade ovate, 1–4 cm. |
Inflorescences | ebracteate. |
ebracteate. |
Flowers | 15–20 mm diam.; sepals 6–8 mm; petals pink to magenta with yellow blotch at base, 10–16 mm; ovules 6. |
10–15 mm diam.; sepals 4–8 mm; petals white, 8–12 mm; ovules 6. |
Seeds | (1–)6, 2–4 mm, shiny and smooth; elaiosome prominent, 2–3 mm. |
(1–)6, 1–2 mm diam., shiny and smooth; elaiosome 1 mm or less. |
2n | = 10, 12, 16, 24. |
= 10, 20. |
Claytonia sarmentosa |
Claytonia cordifolia |
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Phenology | Flowering May–Aug. | Flowering May–Sep. |
Habitat | Moist tundra and meadows | Meadows, seeps |
Elevation | 0-2000 m (0-6600 ft) | 500-2000 m (1600-6600 ft) |
Distribution |
AK; BC; YT; Russia |
CA; ID; MT; NV; OR; UT; WA; BC
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Discussion | Claytonia sarmentosa reproduces almost entirely from stolons and rhizomes. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
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Source | FNA vol. 4, p. 474. | FNA vol. 4. |
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Synonyms | Montia sarmentosa | C. sibirica var. cordifolia, Montia cordifolia |
Name authority | C. A. Meyer: Nouv. Mém. Soc. Imp. Naturalistes Moscou 1: 137. (1829) | S. Watson: Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts 17: 365. (1882) |
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