Claytonia ogilviensis

Ogilvie Mountains Spring Beauty, Claytonia ogilviensis, Mount Langham, Yukon. 19 July 2012.

Ogilvie Mountains spring beauty
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Order: Caryophyllales
Family: Montiaceae
Genus: Claytonia
Species:
C. ogilviensis
Binomial name
Claytonia ogilviensis

Claytonia ogilviensis, common name Ogilvie Mountains spring beauty, is a plant endemic to the Ogilvie Mountains and the Dawson Range in the Yukon Territory of Canada. These mountains extend into Alaska, and one of the known populations is less than 1 km from the border, so it would not be surprising if the plant were to be found in Alaska as well.[1][2][3]

Claytonia ogilviensis is a perennial herb with round or turnip-shaped tubers up to 25 mm in diameter, spreading by means of underground rhizomes. Stems are up to 8 cm tall. Leaves are generally round, up to 2.5 cm in diameter. Flowers are borne in umbels with leaf-like bracts. Flowers are bright purple, up to 20 mm in diameter. [1][4][5][6]

References

  1. ^ a b Flora of North America v 4 p 465
  2. ^ University of Alaska Anchorage, Plant Field Guide, Ogilvie Mountains spring beauty
  3. ^ Yukon Conservation Data Centre (2019). "Rare Plant Information Sheet: Ogilvie Mountain Spring Beauty" (PDF). Environment Yukon. Retrieved 15 March 2022.
  4. ^ McNeill, John. 1972. New taxa of Claytonia section Claytonia (Portulacaceae). Canadian Journal of Botany 50(9): 1895–1896.
  5. ^ Cody, W. J. 1996. Flora of the Yukon Territory i–xvii, 1–669. NRC Research Press, Ottawa.
  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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