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Definition of Claytonia
1. Noun. Genus of mainly North American succulent herbs with white or pink flowers usually in terminal racemes.
Generic synonyms: Caryophylloid Dicot Genus
Group relationships: Family Portulacaceae, Portulacaceae, Purslane Family
Member holonyms: Carolina Spring Beauty, Claytonia Caroliniana, Clatonia Lanceolata, Spring Beauty, Claytonia Virginica, Virginia Spring Beauty
Definition of Claytonia
1. n. An American genus of perennial herbs with delicate blossoms; -- sometimes called spring beauty.
Definition of Claytonia
1. Noun. Any plant in the taxonomic genus Claytonia. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Claytonia
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Claytonia
Literary usage of Claytonia
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Life-zone Indicators in California by Harvey Monroe Hall, Marcos Sastre, William Hamilton Gibson, Joseph Grinnell (1919)
"There are many sponsors for the Claytonia, or spring beauty, the Dutch-
man's-breeches ,. ..'> (Dicentra cucul- ^ ' /aria), the rock- :•' flower (Saxifraga ..."
2. A Sketch of the Botany of South-Carolina and Georgia by Stephen Elliott (1821)
"Panicles opposite the leaves, dichotomous, the branches expanding. Nectary persistent.
Grows in swamps near Granby, South-Carolina. Flowers Claytonia. GEN. ..."
3. Wild Flowers Worth Knowing by Neltje Blanchan, Asa Don Dickinson (1917)
"... soap-like lather when its bruised leaves are agitated in water. 'PURSLANE
FAMILY (Portulacaceae) Spring Beauty; Claytonia Claytonia virginica ..."
4. Hortus Kewensis; Or, A Catalogue of the Plants Cultivated in the Royal by William Aiton (1811)
"Virginian Claytonia. Nat. of North America. Cult. before 1748, by Peter ...
Spatula-leaved Claytonia. Claytonia virginica |3. Willden. sp. pi. \. p. 1185. ..."
5. An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States: Canada and the British by Nathaniel Lord Britton, Addison Brown (1897)
"Ascends to 2400 ft. in Virginia. March-May.. Claytonia ... Claytonia lanceolata
Pursh, a related species, with sessile shorter stem-leaves, occurs from the ..."