Biology:Claytonia tuberosa

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Short description: Species of flowering plant

Claytonia tuberosa
Scientific classification edit
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Order: Caryophyllales
Family: Montiaceae
Genus: Claytonia
Species:
C. tuberosa
Binomial name
Claytonia tuberosa
Pall. ex Willd.[1]

Claytonia tuberosa, commonly known as Beringian springbeauty or tuberous springbeauty, (Template:Lang-ik)[2][3] is a species of flowering plant in the family Montiaceae. It is a perennial herb indigenous to Alaska, British Columbia, Northwest Territories, and the Yukon of North America, westward to East Asia–Siberia.[4] The perennial grows from a globose tuberous root to a height of 15 centimetres (6 in) and bears several hermaphrodite white flowers on stems bearing a single pair of petiolate cauline leaves. Its closest relative is probably Claytonia virginica.[5]

References

  1. "Claytonia tuberosa Pall. ex Willd.". ITIS Report. https://www.itis.gov/servlet/SingleRpt/SingleRpt?search_topic=TSN&search_value=20381. 
  2. Heller, Christine A.; Scott, Edward Marion (December 9, 1967). "The Alaska Dietary Survey, 1956-1961". U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, Nutrition and Metabolic Disease Section, Arctic Health Research Center. p. 180. https://books.google.com/books?id=Oz7-4QVAgPcC&dq=oatkuk+Claytonia+tuberosa&pg=PA180. 
  3. Dennis Griffin. "The Ethnobiology of the Central Yup’ik Eskimo, Southwestern Alaska" (PDF). http://www.alaskaanthropology.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/akanth-articles_300_v7_n2_Griffin.pdf. 
  4. "Introduction to Vascular Plants". E-Flora Bc: Electronic Atlas of the Flora of British Columbia. http://linnet.geog.ubc.ca/Atlas/Atlas.aspx?sciname=Claytonia%20tuberosa&noTransfer=0. 
  5. Miller, J. M. and K. L. Chambers. 2006. Systematics of Claytonia (Portulacaceae). Systematic Botany Monographs 78: 1-236. ISBN:0-912861-78-9

External links

Wikidata ☰ Q16751501 entry