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Spring Beauty

Claytonia virginica

Photo by KeithRoragen
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Field Notes

Description:

Delicate five-petaled flowers of about 20mm across. Petals are white with pink veining. Anthers are also pink. Flowers arise from a stem with only two lanceolate leaves near the base.

Habitat:

Deciduous hardwood forest.

Notes:

Found along Hawthorne trail, and throughout the forest.

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Claytonia virginica

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