Claytonia

Accepted species 29 Documented here 19 Family Montiaceae

Accepted species 29 in this genus

Every accepted species in the genus is listed. A name links to its page when we hold at least three commercially licensed photographs of it. Where we do not, the row shows how many we actually found, which is usually none.

SpeciesAuthority Usable photographsPage
Claytonia virginica L. 4,900 documented
Claytonia perfoliata Donn ex Willd. 2,722 documented
Claytonia sibirica L. 1,685 documented
Claytonia caroliniana Michx. 1,198 documented
Claytonia lanceolata Pursh 543 documented
Claytonia rubra (Howell) Tidestr. 340 documented
Claytonia parviflora Douglas 315 documented
Claytonia exigua Torr. & A.Gray 181 documented
Claytonia gypsophiloides Fisch. & C.A.Mey. 160 documented
Claytonia rosea Rydb. 156 documented
Claytonia megarhiza (A.Gray) Parry ex S.Watson 114 documented
Claytonia cordifolia S.Watson 26 documented
Claytonia nevadensis S.Watson 25 documented
Claytonia saxosa Brandegee 22 documented
Claytonia umbellata S.Watson 18 documented
Claytonia ogilviensis McNeill 17 documented
Claytonia sarmentosa C.A.Mey. 14 documented
Claytonia palustris Swanson & Kelley 11 documented
Claytonia joanneana Schult. 10 documented
Claytonia acutifolia Pall. ex Willd. 2 below the evidence gate
Claytonia scammaniana Hultén 2 below the evidence gate
Claytonia tuberosa Pall. ex Schult. 1 below the evidence gate
Claytonia × washingtoniana (Suksd.) Suksd. 0 below the evidence gate
Claytonia arctica Adam 0 below the evidence gate
Claytonia eschscholtzii Cham. 0 below the evidence gate
Claytonia ozarkensis John M.Mill. & K.L.Chambers 0 below the evidence gate
Claytonia porsildii Jurtzev 0 below the evidence gate
Claytonia soczaviana Jurtzev 0 below the evidence gate
Claytonia udokanica Zuev 0 below the evidence gate

Why some species have no pagethe gate

This site is commercial, so it can only publish photographs licensed for commercial use. Roughly three quarters of the photographs on iNaturalist are CC BY-NC, which excludes them. A species needs at least three usable photographs before we will build it a page, because a page with one picture and no traits tells you nothing you could not get from a search result, and generating hundreds of thousands of those is precisely the practice that got the previous version of this site deleted.

So the species above without a link are not errors and they are not omissions. They are real, accepted plants that we cannot yet document to the standard we hold ourselves to, and the count in the photographs column is exactly how far short we fall.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. Accepted names, authorities, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. Photograph counts, restricted to CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA. Retrieved 2026-06-27.