Claytonia

George Yatskievych of the Missouri Botanical Garden in St. Louis says spring beauty, Claytonia virginica, is his favorite.

Plant native bulbs now for thriving Midwest gardens 2010

Spring Beauty (Claytonia rosea) is abundant all over the Boulder trails now.

Rich Wolf: Where Do All the Flowers Grow? Rich Wolf 2010

Spring Beauty (Claytonia rosea) is abundant all over the Boulder trails now.

Rich Wolf: Where Do All the Flowers Grow? Rich Wolf 2010

Specimens so treated, which were cuttings only two years ago, are now 2ft. in diameter, and covered densely with large flowers; and how lovely some of the pretty weeds which have sprung up amongst the bushes, and mingle their flowers among the masses of white, appear -- such as Spring Beauty (Claytonia), pink flowers; the

Hardy Perennials and Old Fashioned Flowers Describing the Most Desirable Plants, for Borders, Rockeries, and Shrubberies. John Wood

One afternoon, last spring, I had been walking through a copse of young white birches, -- their leaves scarce yet apparent, -- over a ground delicate with wood-anemones, moist and mottled with dog's-tooth-violet leaves, and spangled with the delicate clusters of that shy creature, the Claytonia or Spring Beauty.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 47, September, 1861 Various

_Claytonia acutiflora_ or _Virginiana_, the Musquash of the Micmac

The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, on the Cultivation, Preparation for Shipment, and Commercial Value, &c. of the Various Substances Obtained From Trees and Plants, Entering into the Husbandry of Tropical and Sub-tropical Regions, &c. P. L. Simmonds

Our next wild-flower in this region is the Claytonia, or Spring-Beauty, which is common in the Middle States, but here found in only a few localities.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 62, December, 1862 Various

These were _Apios tuberosa_, and _Claytonia acutiflora_, _or Virginiana_.

The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, on the Cultivation, Preparation for Shipment, and Commercial Value, &c. of the Various Substances Obtained From Trees and Plants, Entering into the Husbandry of Tropical and Sub-tropical Regions, &c. P. L. Simmonds

Smaller plants, like the Trillium, the Houstonia, the Bloodroot, the Claytonia and the Hepatica, will work in charmingly in the foreground.

Amateur Gardencraft A Book for the Home-Maker and Garden Lover 1882

And then there is the spring beauty, [Footnote: Claytonia] a delicate little flower, with pink striped bells, and the everlasting flower, [Footnote: Graphalium] and saxifrage, and the white and dark red lily, that the Yankees call 'white and red death.'

In the Forest Or, pictures of life and scenery in the woods of Canada Catharine Parr Strickland Traill 1850