[The Purslane Family in Denali National Park and Preserve]
Alaska Springbeauty, Alaska Spring-beauty, Creeping Spring Beauty
Claytonia sarmentosa
Synonym: Montia sarmentosa
A close-up of a flower of Alaska springbeauty as seen on a moist slope along the road up the north side of Quigley Ridge, Denali National Park............June 18, 2012. Plants here are similar in appearance to siberian springbeauty (Claytonia siberica), which I don't believe are on the north side of the Alaska Range here.
A close-up of a flower of Alaska springbeauty as seen on a moist slope along the road up the north side of Quigley Ridge, Denali National Park............June 18, 2012. Note the broad, ovate pair of stem leaves.
Alaska springbeauty as seen on moist tundra about one-half mile southwest of the summit of Mount Galen, Denali National Park and Preserve..............June 21, 2012.
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Close-ups of the paired sepals, petals, and basal leaves of Alaska springbeauty as seen along the Taiga Trail at Camp Denali, Denali National Park and Preserve............June 16, 2012.
Alaska spring-beauty on the upper slopes of Camp Ridge, above Camp Denali.........June
22, 2002.
A dark close-up of the basal leaves of Alaska spring-beauty
on the upper slopes of Camp Ridge, above Camp Denali.........June 22, 2002.
Paul Slichter