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 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]
| Claytonia tuberosa | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Order: | Caryophyllales |
| Family: | Montiaceae |
| Genus: | Claytonia |
| Species: | C. tuberosa
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| Binomial name | |
| Claytonia tuberosa | |
References
edit- ^ "Claytonia tuberosa Pall. ex Willd". ITIS Report.
- ^ 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.
- ^ Dennis Griffin. "The Ethnobiology of the Central Yup'ik Eskimo, Southwestern Alaska" (PDF). Alaskananthropology.org. Retrieved 31 March 2022.
- ^ "Introduction to Vascular Plants". E-Flora Bc: Electronic Atlas of the Flora of British Columbia.
- ^ 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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