Spring Beauty
Claytonia perfoliata Donn ex Willd.
- light
- —
- water
- Medium
- tall
- 30 cm
- wide
- —
Montiaceae
Also called Indian lettuce, Miner's lettuce, Spring beauty, Winter Purslane
Formerly Limnia perfoliata, Montia perfoliata
When it flowers
Not known yet in the tropics: too few flowering observations to read a season from.
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Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- AnnualKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- TemperateKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- SW. Canada to GuatemalaKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Height
- 30 cmRead from Wikipedia, one source
- Water
- Average: moist, well drainedRead from Wikipedia, not yet checkedOne source. Checker: Wikipedia page does not state medium: it says the plant likes cool, damp conditions
- Flowers
- White, pinkRead from Wikipedia, one source
Not known yet: light, spread, coldest it survives, heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (6)
- Czech
- batolka prorostlá
- German
- Gewöhnliches Tellerkraut, Tellerkraut
- Finnish
- salaattikleitonia
- French
- claytonie perfoliée
- Dutch
- winterpostelein, Winterpostelein
- Turkish
- Kış semiz otu
Where this comes from
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- Wikipedia, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA 3.0
- 3D model: Claytonia perfoliata (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
A fact “checked by a majority of its sources” was settled by a vote of the pages it was read from, not by a person reading it; one marked “one source” rests on that page alone. Anything else not marked checked has not been checked yet. Where nothing is known, the page says so rather than guess.