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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.

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

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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 ..."

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