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- noun Any plant in the taxonomic genus
Claytonia .
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Examples
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Bean Sprout the Herb Blogging Dog was featured as a puppy in this interesting post about Crazy Salad, more specifically Miner's Lettuce, also called winter purslane, Cuban Spinach, and claytonia perfoliata.
Weekend Herb Blogging #15 A New Icon and New Herb Bloggers! Kalyn Denny 2006
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These are all common flowers, and easily observed; and the catalogue might be increased by rare ones, as the white corydalis, the smaller yellow violet, (_V. rotundifolia_,) and the claytonia or spring-beauty.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 42, April, 1861 Various
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Abbot have had the exceptional experience of finding the claytonia even before the hepatica -- certainly the earliest spring blossom worthy the name in the Middle and New England states -- of course the rank Skunk
Wild Flowers Worth Knowing Neltje Blanchan 1891
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A good sample of our native purslane is the claytonia, or spring beauty, a shy, delicate plant that opens its rose-colored flowers in the moist, sunny places in the woods or along their borders so early in the season.
The Writings of John Burroughs — Volume 05: Pepacton John Burroughs 1879
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I have also found the claytonia and the coltsfoot first.
The Writings of John Burroughs — Volume 05: Pepacton John Burroughs 1879
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I had never before stood amid blooming claytonia, a flower of
In the Catskills Selections from the Writings of John Burroughs John Burroughs 1879
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Red clover was opening in the valley below, and wild strawberries just ripening; on the summit the yellow birch was just hanging out its catkins, and the claytonia, or spring-beauty, was in bloom.
In the Catskills Selections from the Writings of John Burroughs John Burroughs 1879
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That pretty little Yankee weed, the claytonia, now common in parts of
Falling in Love With Other Essays on More Exact Branches of Science Grant Allen 1873
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Sidelong eastwards scomber hamamelidoxylon fraudulently avariciously verdant than the guerdon claytonia palaestra the premiership demurely to wynette.
Rational Review 2009
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