SJSU - Carl W. Sharsmith Herbarium, San Jose State University (SJSU)
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Claytonia rubra subsp. rubra (Howell) Tidestr.
Montiaceae
John Rawlings, Ken Hickman
1675
2016-02-28
02/28/2016
United States, California, Santa Clara, Mt. Umunhum Summit Trail
37.15819 -121.88766 +-8m. WGS84
786 meters (2578ft)
along trail through chaparral, forest and woodland, usually growing with Claytonia parviflora, with which it apparently intergrades. These plants growing at edge of Adenostoma fasciculatum, Arctostaphylos crustacea ssp. crustacea, Eriodictyon californicum where chaparral transitions to mixed evergreen forest.
Widely separated colonies, sometimes locally abundant, of reddish-tinted annuals. Seeds shiny black with exerted, white appendage from notch; leaf blades 1-2 cm long and wide, more or less diamond shaped; petals pinkish 2-3 mm, inf. subtended by perfoliate cauline leaf.