Spring Beauty
Low plant with clusters of white flowers that are striped with pink. Flowers usually have 5 petals with 5 stamens and pink anthers, but this one had 6 petals. This plant grows from a underground tuber, which early American colonists and Native Americans used for food. The tubers have a sweet, chestnut-like flavor.
"Claytonia virginica", the Virginia springbeauty, eastern spring beauty, grass-flower or fairy spud, is an herbaceous perennial in the family Montiaceae. Its native range is eastern North America. Its scientific name honors Colonial Virginia botanist John Clayton.
Similar species: Pinks, Cactuses, And Allies
By Christine Young
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Uploaded Jan 6, 2018. Captured May 14, 2017 13:53 in Main St S, Southbury, CT 06488, USA.
