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Claytonia sibirica
Also called Pink purslane, Siberian Miner's Lettuce, Siberian Spring Beauty, Candy Flower, Candyflower
Siberian springbeauty is a small, low-growing woodland plant with a rosette of fleshy leaves and pink or white candy-striped flowers, grown as a perennial or annual. It does best in cool, moist, partly shaded conditions.
Claytonia sibirica is a flowering plant in the family Montiaceae, commonly known as pink purslane, candy flower, Siberian spring beauty or Siberian miner's lettuce. A synonym is Montia sibirica. It is native to Aleutian Islands and western North America and has been introduced into parts of Europe and Scandinavia.
It is found in moist woods. It is long-lived perennial, biennial, or annual with hermaphroditic flowers which are protandrous and self-fertile. The numerous fleshy stems form a rosette and the leaves are linear, lanceolate, or deltate. The flowers are 8–20 mm diameter, with five white, candy-striped, or pink petals; flowering is typically between February and August, but some plants continue to bloom late into autumn.
Much like Claytonia perfoliata, the aboveground portion of the plant can be eaten raw or cooked. Some leaves have a poor taste or aftertaste.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Claytonia sibirica 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.
