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Claytonia exigua
Fl. N. Amer. 1: 200. 1838.
Common names: Pale claytonia
IllustratedEndemic
Plants annual, with minute, tuberous bodies; periderm absent. Stems 5–10 cm. Leaves: blades gray, beige, or pink, glaucous; basal leaf-blades linear or spatulate, 1–6 × 0.05–0.5 cm; cauline leaves sessile, distinct or partially connate into horn shape, blade spatulate, 0.2–4.5 cm, or subperfoliate, blade 0.2–4.5 cm wide. Inflorescences 1-bracteate; bract leaflike, 0.5–15 mm. Flowers 3–5 mm diam.; sepals 1.5–2.5 mm; petals white or pinkish, 2–5 mm; ovules 3. Seeds 0.5–1 mm, tuberculate; elaiosome inserted in wide notch of seed-coat, 0.5–1 mm. 2n = 16, 32, 48.
Distribution
B.C., Calif., Nev., Oreg., Wash.
Discussion
Subspecies 2 (2 in the flora).
Selected References
None.
Key
| 1 | Cauline leaves distinct or partially connate into horn shape; petals 2-6 mm | Claytonia exigua subsp. exigua |
| 1 | Cauline leaves perfoliate; petals 2-3 mm | Claytonia exigua subsp. glauca |
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few;several +
subperfoliate +
occasionally dentate;crisped +
glaucous +
spatulate +
tuberous +
leaflike +
scale-like +
membranous +
3-valved +
dehiscent +
woody +
sessile +
Pale claytonia +
white +
solitary +
irregular +
symmetric +
showy +
multiple +
capsular +
2-9-carpelled +
single +
1-bracteate +
racemose +
spikelike +
not articulate +
clasping +
hygroscopic +
involute +
glabrous +
wide +
plurilocular +
superior +
globose +
1-many +
absent +
absent +
Fl. N. Amer. +
1838 +
branched +
capillary +
fibrous +
black +
dispersed +
shiny +
tuberculate +
rounded +
leaflike +
persistent +
2;9 +
unequal +
opposite +
adnate +
aerial +
subterranean +
branched +
absent +
Claytonia exigua +
Claytonia +
species +
not deciduous +
annual +