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Carolina Spring Beauty, Wide-leaved Spring Beauty - Claytonia caroliniana


Family: Portulacaceae - Purslane family Genus Common Name: Spring Beauty Native Status: Native
Claytonia caroliniana - Carolina Spring Beauty, Wide-leaved Spring Beauty.
Claytonia is a relatively small genus of 26 species, with all but one of those species found in North America. Most of those species are in the western half of the United States, but a few are found in the east as well.

Carolina Spring Beauty is one of the early eastern wildflowers, normally blooming March through early May, although you may catch a blossom opening in late February in some locations. Claytonia caroliniana has a pair of stem leaves which are lanceolate-ovate on a distinct petiole. Similar Virginia Spring Beauty - C. virginiana - has narrow, grass-like leaves narrowing into an indistinct petiole.

Found in:
AR, CT, GA, IN, KY, MA, MD, ME, MI, MN, NC, NH, NY, OH, PA, TN, VA, VT, WI, WV, GS

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Claytonia caroliniana

Distribution of Claytonia caroliniana in the United States and Canada:
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Map courtesy of The Biota of North America Program.
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Site: The Pocket at Pigeon Mountain, Walker County, GA Date: 2009-March-07Photographer: Gerald C Williamson
Nikon D60
1/60f/5.6 ISO400
Nikon Nikkor AF-S 55-200mm 4-5.6G ED
200mm (300 equiv)
Spring Beauty has five pink-lined white petals in each of one to several blossoms terminating the stem. The stem has a single pair of opposite leaves, lanceolate to ovate in shaped, on a petiole.
Claytonia caroliniana
Site: The Pocket at Pigeon Mountain, Walker County, GA Date: 2008-April-02Photographer: Gerald C Williamson ISO800
Claytonia caroliniana blooms from March thru May.
Claytonia caroliniana
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Claytonia caroliniana initially published on USWildflowers.com 2008-12-31; Updated 2020-01-14

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