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Claytonia cordifolia
Also called Broad Leaved Spring Beauty, Cordate Leaved Spring Beauty, Heart Leaved Spring Beauty, Heart Leaved Springbeauty
A small perennial wildflower from western North America that grows from a rhizome in wet places such as streams, springs, bogs and shallow lakes. Keep the soil consistently moist and give it cool conditions; it is a wild species, seldom grown in gardens.
Claytonia cordifolia is a species of wildflower in the family Montiaceae known by the common name heartleaf springbeauty. It is native to western North America from British Columbia to Utah, where it grows in shallow lakes and in streams or springs and wetlands including bogs and fens according to Miller and Chambers (2006). It is a perennial herb growing from a long, budding rhizome and producing an erect stem up to 40 centimeters tall. The basal leaves have oval blades up to 9 centimeters long with heart-shaped bases where they attach to their long petioles. There is also a pair of oval-shaped leaves at a midpoint on the stem. The stalked inflorescence bears up to 12 small flowers with five white petals each about a centimeter long.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Claytonia cordifolia by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
