Claytonia

Bean Sprout the Herb Blogging Dog was featured as a puppy in this interesting post about Crazy Salad, more specifically Miner's Lettuce, also called winter purslane, Cuban Spinach, and claytonia perfoliata. ❋ Kalyn Denny (2006)

These are all common flowers, and easily observed; and the catalogue might be increased by rare ones, as the white corydalis, the smaller yellow violet, (_V. rotundifolia_,) and the claytonia or spring-beauty. ❋ Various (N/A)

Abbot have had the exceptional experience of finding the claytonia even before the hepatica -- certainly the earliest spring blossom worthy the name in the Middle and New England states -- of course the rank Skunk ❋ Neltje Blanchan (1891)

A good sample of our native purslane is the claytonia, or spring beauty, a shy, delicate plant that opens its rose-colored flowers in the moist, sunny places in the woods or along their borders so early in the season. ❋ John Burroughs (1879)

I have also found the claytonia and the coltsfoot first. ❋ John Burroughs (1879)

I had never before stood amid blooming claytonia, a flower of ❋ John Burroughs (1879)

Red clover was opening in the valley below, and wild strawberries just ripening; on the summit the yellow birch was just hanging out its catkins, and the claytonia, or spring-beauty, was in bloom. ❋ John Burroughs (1879)

That pretty little Yankee weed, the claytonia, now common in parts of ❋ Grant Allen (1873)

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