Claytonia megarhiza
(A. Gray) S. Watson
Alpine springbeauty, Fell fields claytonia
Claytonia megarhiza is a perennial herb that is native to California, and also found elsewhere in western North America.
California Rare Plant Rank:
2B.3 (rare, threatened, or endangered in CA; common elsewhere)
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Montiaceae
(Portulacaceae) - Claytonia
Bloom Period
one or more occurrenceswithin a 7.5-minute quadrangle
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Jepson eFlora section:
eudicot
USDA PLANTS group:
Dicot
Occurs usually in non wetlands, occasionally in wetlands
Lodgepole Forest, Subalpine Forest, Alpine Fell-fields
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[Wikipedia] Range, Habitat, Edibility: Claytonia megarhiza is native to western North America from northwestern Canada to New Mexico, where it grows in rock crevices and talus habitats in subalpine and alpine climates. The species is known from summits and slopes of North America's highest mountains including the Redstone Mountains of the Canadian Northwest Territories, disjunct south to the central and southern Rocky Mountains reaching a southern limit in the Sangre de Cristo Mountains.[4] In the Wenatchee Mountains of Washington State it is often found on serpentine.[5] Uses The rosettes of the leaves and the roots can be eaten as an emergency food.[7] (link added by Mary Ann Machi)
