[Springbeauties and Miner's Lettuce: The Genus Claytonia East of the Cascade Mountains of Oregon and Washington]

Great Basin Springbeauty, Umbellate Springbeauty

Claytonia umbellata

Great Basin Springbeauty, Umbellate Springbeauty: Claytonia umbellata

Great Basin springbeauty beginning to bloom at a mountain viewpoint on US Highway 97 west of Shaniko, OR at MP 61.6 ............March 10, 2015.

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Great Basin springbeauty beginning to bloom at a mountain viewpoint on US Highway 97 west of Shaniko, OR at MP 61.6 ............March 10, 2015.

Great Basin Springbeauty, Umbellate Springbeauty: Claytonia umbellata

Great Basin springbeauty as seen in gravelly soils atop Baldy Mountain, Strawberry Mountain Wilderness.......June 22, 2011. The leaves are thick and dark green while the stems and sepals are a deep red color.

Great Basin Springbeauty, Umbellate Springbeauty: Claytonia umbellata - Great Basin Springbeauty, Umbellate Springbeauty: Claytonia umbellata - Great Basin Springbeauty, Umbellate Springbeauty: Claytonia umbellata

Additional close-up photos of Great Basin springbeauty as seen in gravelly soils atop Baldy Mountain, Strawberry Mountain Wilderness........June 22, 2011.

Inflorescence (past bloom) of Great Basin Springbeauty, Umbellate Springbeauty: Claytonia umbellata - Great Basin Springbeauty, Umbellate Springbeauty: Claytonia umbellata - Great Basin Springbeauty, Umbellate Springbeauty: Claytonia umbellata

Great Basin springbeauty as seen perhaps a week past its blooming period on a north-facing talus slope at the Lawrence Memorial Grassland Preserve in north-central Oregon.......May 15, 2010.

Great Basin Springbeauty, Umbellate Springbeauty: Claytonia umbellata - Great Basin Springbeauty, Umbellate Springbeauty: Claytonia umbellata

Great Basin springbeauty as seen post bloom on rock outcrops along the Canyon Mountain Trail, Strawberry Mountain Wilderness.........May 29, 2014.

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Great Basin springbeauty as seen post bloom on basalt, talus slopes above 6500' on Mount Pisgah, Ochoco National Forest...........June 13, 2015. In the habitat view, the plant is found amongst the basalt blocks at the bottom of the photo. Photographed looking south to Big Summit Prairie.

Great Basin Springbeauty, Umbellate Springbeauty: Claytonia umbellata

Great Basin Springbeauty, Umbellate Springbeauty: Claytonia umbellata - Great Basin Springbeauty, Umbellate Springbeauty: Claytonia umbellata

Great Basin springbeauty observed past bloom in rock runnels on the northwest side of Drakes Peak, Fremont-Winema National Forest.....June 29, 2019.

Paul Slichter