Pictures of Flowers Spring Beauty Plant Pictures and Spring Beauty Plant Kind

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Pictures of Flowers Spring Beauty Plant Pictures and Spring Beauty Plant Kind

Mar 7th, 2009 by admin

Pictures of Flowers Spring Beauty Plant Pictures and Spring Beauty Plant Kind

Spring Beauty or Claytonia is a genus of 25 species of flowering plants mostly native to North America. Few species exist in Guatemala, South America and northeastern Asia. The plant blooms in early spring in Nova Scotia, Georgia and Texas and in the western United States. Spring beauty plants can be found in lawns, woods and thickets. Spring Beauty is a perennial plant that grows up to 6-18 inches tall.

Flowers are whitish-pink or rose-colored with pink or purple veins. Single pair of leaves grow about halfway up on the stems. One of the species known as miner’s lettuce is distributed throughout mountains west of North America in moist soils. This particular species was used by the miners as fresh green salad during the 1849 Gold Rush in California and from when the name miner’s lettuce has become a commonly popular name. Serpentine spring beauty is a species that is native to British Columbia, Idaho and California in different habitats on serpentine soils.