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Carolina Spring Beauty (Claytonia caroliniana)

Image ID: 2015/yrt249

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Native
Family: Portulacaceae (Purslane)
Height: 0.5 to 1 ft.
Blooms: March to May
Leaf Type: smooth
Bloom Size:  0.5 in. (typical)
Flower Description: Individual flowers, Regular blooms, 5 parts
Location: Youghiogheny River Trail
Date:  4/26/2015
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Carolina Spring Beauty may be easily confused with:
We started out as wildflowers from the bicycle trails of western Pennsylvania, but we've grown!
Meyer, Joseph E. (1918). The Herbalist and Herb Doctor. Hammond, Ind.: Indiana Herb Gardens. 400 pp.

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