''Claytonia arctica'', the Arctic spring beauty, is a species of
flowering plant
Flowering plants are plants that bear flowers and fruits, and form the clade Angiospermae (), commonly called angiosperms. The term "angiosperm" is derived from the Greek words ('container, vessel') and ('seed'), and refers to those plants th ...
native to Siberia including the Taimyr Peninsula and Wrangel Island and eastward to the Aleutians and Bering Sea islands of Alaska.
A plant species of the circumpolar Arctic, it has been confused with ''
Claytonia sarmentosa'' and ''
C. scammaniana''. A taxonomic revision including a lectotypification of ''Claytonia arctica'' was published in 2006.
[Miller, J. M. and K. L. Chambers. 2006. Systematics of ''Claytonia'' (Portulacaceae). Systematic Botany Monographs 78: 1-234. ]
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Flora North America Treatment
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arctica
Arctica or Arctida was an ancient continent which formed approximately 2.565 billion years ago in the Neoarchean era. It was made of Archaean cratons, including the Siberian Craton, with its Anabar/Aldan shields in Siberia, and the Slave, ...
Plants described in 1817