Claytonia tuberosa

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

Claytonia tuberosa, commonly known as Beringian springbeauty, Eskimo potato , [2] or tuberous springbeauty, (Inupiaq : oatkuk, ulqit, utqiq, ulqiq) [3] [4] 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. [5] 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 . [6]

References

  1. ↑ "Claytonia tuberosa Pall. ex Willd". ITIS Report.
  2. ↑ merriam-webster.com Retrieved June 21, 2011.
  3. ↑ 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.
  4. ↑ Dennis Griffin. "The Ethnobiology of the Central Yup'ik Eskimo, Southwestern Alaska" (PDF). Alaskananthropology.org. Retrieved 31 March 2022.
  5. ↑ "Introduction to Vascular Plants". E-Flora Bc: Electronic Atlas of the Flora of British Columbia.
  6. ↑ 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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