claytonia
Noun
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Genus of mainly North American succulent herbs with white or pink flowers usually in terminal racemes (synset 111879493)
is a type of: caryophylloid dicot genus - genus of relatively early dicotyledonous plants including mostly flowersmember holonym:
- carolina spring beauty, claytonia caroliniana - similar to Claytonia virginica but having usually pink flowers; eastern North America
- clatonia lanceolata, spring beauty - small slender plant having one pair of succulent leaves at the middle of the stem and a loose raceme of white or pink or rose bowl-shaped flowers and an edible corm
- claytonia virginica, virginia spring beauty - small cormous perennial grown for its low rosette of succulent foliage and racemes of pink-tinged white flowers; eastern North America
belongs to: family portulacaceae, portulacaceae, purslane family - family of usually succulent herbs; cosmopolitan in distribution especially in Americassame as: genus claytonia
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