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 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
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Eudicots
Order:	Caryophyllales
Family:	Montiaceae
Genus:	Claytonia
Species:	C. tuberosa
Binomial name
Claytonia tuberosa Pall. ex Willd.[1]

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

External links

• Flora North America