Claytonia 



PORTULACACEAE 



435 



~w 

 Map 893 



Claytonia virginica L. 



1906; and August 27, 1909. I have a specimen collected by Umbach on 

 June 27, 1899. Holzinger says the species is perennial and grows in very 



sandy soil. 



Sandstone ledges near Duluth, Minn., southw. to cent. 111., eastw. to Lake 

 Michigan and Lake, Newton, and Porter Counties, Ind. 



2414. CLAYTONIA [Gronov.j L. Spring Beauty 



Stem leaves linear, linear-lanceolate to lanceolate, 5-15 cm long, sessile or petiolate. 



1. C. virginica. 



Stem leaves oval-lanceolate to oblong-lanceolate, 2.5-5 cm long, petiolate. (See excluded 

 species no. 214, p. 1044.) C. caroliniana, 



1. Claytonia virginica L. Virginia Spring Beauty. Map 893. Frequent 

 to common in moist or dry woods in every county of the state. It is ex- 

 teremely variable in all of its parts except the seed. It generally has only 

 2 stem leaves, but I have one specimen with 3 stem leaves. Stanley 

 Coulter says : "Common with the floral parts multiplied." The dried stem 

 leaves of my specimens vary from 2-25 mm in width and from 5-15 cm 

 in length ; some are sessile and others are petiolate. The calyx at fruiting 

 time varies from 5-12 mm long, and the lobes from rounded to acute. I 

 think that some of the wideleaf specimens have been reported as Clay- 

 tonia caroliniana, which I have not found in Indiana although I have 

 sought for it for years. 



I once noted a small bird greedily eating the flowers of Claytonia vir- 

 ginica. 



N. S. to Minn., southw. to Va. and Kans. (Rydberg. North Amer. Flora 



21: 298. 1932). 



2421. PORTULACA r [Tourn] L. 



Leaf blades flat; axils of leaves glabrous or nearly so; petals yellow 1. P. oleracea. 



Leaf blades terete or nearly so; axils of leaves pilose; petals red or purple. (See 

 excluded species no. 216, p. 1045.) P. grandiflora. 



1. Portulaca oleracea L. Common Purslane. Map 894. This plant 

 was formerly a common and annoying weed in gardens and cornfields. 



