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n. - Genus of mainly North American succulent herbs with white or pink flowers usually in terminal racemes.

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  • Spring Beauty (Claytonia rosea) is abundant all over the Boulder trails now.
  • George Yatskievych of the Missouri Botanical Garden in St. Louis says spring beauty, Claytonia virginica, is his favorite.
  • Our next wild-flower in this region is the Claytonia, or Spring-Beauty, which is common in the Middle States, but here found in only a few localities.
  • One afternoon, last spring, I had been walking through a copse of young white birches, -- their leaves scarce yet apparent, -- over a ground delicate with wood-anemones, moist...
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