Clay`to´ni`a
| prop. n. | 1. | (Bot.) An American genus of perennial herbs with delicate blossoms; - sometimes called |
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| Noun | 1. |  Claytonia - genus of mainly North American succulent herbs with white or pink flowers usually in terminal racemescaryophylloid dicot genus - genus of relatively early dicotyledonous plants including mostly flowers family Portulacaceae, Portulacaceae, purslane family - family of usually succulent herbs; cosmopolitan in distribution especially in Americas Carolina spring beauty, Claytonia caroliniana - similar to Claytonia virginica but having usually pink flowers; eastern North America Clatonia lanceolata, spring beauty - small slender plant having one pair of succulent leaves at the middle of the stem and a loose raceme of white or pink or rose bowl-shaped flowers and an edible corm Claytonia virginica, Virginia spring beauty - small cormous perennial grown for its low rosette of succulent foliage and racemes of pink-tinged white flowers; eastern North America |
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