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UK Nature > Wild Flowers > Red & Pink Wild Flowers > Claytonia sibirica
Common Name: Pink Purslane Scientific Name: Claytonia sibirica Claytonia sibirica, more commonly known as Pink Purslane, is found in moist woods. It is a short-lived perennial or annual with hermaphroditic flowers which are protandrous (of or relating to a flower in which the anthers release their pollen before the stigma of the same flower is receptive) and self-fertile. The numerous fleshy stems form a rosette and the leaves are lanceolate. The flowers are 8-20 mm diameter, with five white, candy-striped, or pink petals, flowering is between February and August. Naturalised and fairly widespread but local in Britain. |
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