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Claytonia
Sign in to saveClaytonia (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.
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It sits within the topics Botanical taxa named by Carl Linnaeus, Caryophyllales genera and Claytonia.
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Species
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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 781
- With media
- 603
- Family
- Montiaceae
- Collections
- UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA MUSEUMS, DAV, EWU, RSA, LOB, UCSC
- Recorded in
- United States, Mexico
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- taxon
- Parent taxon
- Montiaceae
- Image
- Claytonia virginica 2 Radnor Lake.jpg
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- Commons category
- Claytonia
- taxon rank
- genus
- taxon name
- Claytonia
- topic's main category
- Category:Claytonia
- taxon common name
- Winterpostelein
- has fruit type
- capsule
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Encyclopedic overview
8 sectionsContents
- Description
- Taxonomy
- Species
- Etymology
- Distribution and habitat
- Uses
- References
- External links
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.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Claytonia” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.