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spring beauties
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spring beauties

Claytonia

Claytonia (spring beauty) is a genus of flowering plants native to North America, Central America, and Asia. The genus was formerly included in Portulacaceae but is now classified in the family Montiaceae, primarily native to the mountain chains of Asia and North America, with a couple of species extending south to Guatemala in Central America, and northwest to Kazakhstan, Mongolia, and Russia in eastern Asia.

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5 branches of this genus, most-observed first

Claytonia sect. Claytonia

sectionClaytonia

Claytonia sect. Limnia

sectionLimnia

Claytonia sect. Caudicosae

sectionCaudicosae

Claytonia sect. Rhizomatosae

sectionRhizomatosae

Claytonia udokanica

speciesClaytonia udokanica

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 52995.