Claytonia arctica

Claytonia arctica is a species of flowering plant native to northeastern Siberia, Kamchatka, the Aleutians and Alaska.[2] A Beringian plant, it has been subject to a great deal of taxonomic confusion over the years, frequently confounded with Claytonia sarmentosa and C. scammaniana.[3]

Claytonia arctica
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Order: Caryophyllales
Family: Montiaceae
Genus: Claytonia
Species:
C. arctica
Binomial name
Claytonia arctica
Adam[1]
Synonyms[2]

Claytonia acutifolia Ledeb.

References

  1. Mém. Soc. Imp. Naturalistes Moscou 5: 94 (1817)
  2. "Claytonia arctica Adam". Plants of the World Online. Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. 2017. Retrieved 2 November 2020.
  3. Ickert-Bond, Stefanie M.; Murray, David; Oliver, Margaret G.; Berrios, Hazel K.; Webb, Campbell O. (2019). "The Claytonia arctica Complex in Alaska—Analyzing a Beringian Taxonomic Puzzle Using Taxonomic Concepts". Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden. 104 (3): 478–494. doi:10.3417/2019491. S2CID 203410317.
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.