Claytonia tuberosa

Claytonia tuberosa, commonly known as Beringian springbeauty or tuberous springbeauty, (Inupiaq: oatkuk, ulqit, utqiq, ulqiq)[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 AsiaSiberia.[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]

Claytonia tuberosa
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Order: Caryophyllales
Family: Montiaceae
Genus: Claytonia
Species:
C. tuberosa
Binomial name
Claytonia tuberosa

References

  1. "Claytonia tuberosa Pall. ex Willd". ITIS Report.
  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 via Google Books.
  3. Dennis Griffin. "The Ethnobiology of the Central Yup'ik Eskimo, Southwestern Alaska" (PDF). Alaskananthropology.org. Retrieved 31 March 2022.
  4. "Introduction to Vascular Plants". E-Flora Bc: Electronic Atlas of the Flora of British Columbia.
  5. Miller, J. M. and K. L. Chambers. 2006. Systematics of Claytonia (Portulacaceae). Systematic Botany Monographs 78: 1-236. ISBN 0-912861-78-9


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