Claytonia virginicaL.

Virginia Springbeauty

WFO wfo-0000609208 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h

Claytonia virginica, photographed by Zakqary Roy
fig. a Zakqary Roy, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-05-12 / obs. 197094950
Claytonia virginica, photographed by Zakqary Roy
fig. b Zakqary Roy, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 198170481
Claytonia virginica, photographed by Violet T.
fig. c Violet T., CC BY 4.0 / obs. 200299314
Claytonia virginica, photographed by Cecil Smith
fig. d Cecil Smith, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 205920721
Claytonia virginica, photographed by Liren Varghese
fig. e Liren Varghese, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 196928689
Claytonia virginica, photographed by gwt2102
fig. f gwt2102, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 197071485
Claytonia virginica, photographed by Howard Williams
fig. g Howard Williams, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 197515013
Claytonia virginica, photographed by Ryan Sorrells
fig. h Ryan Sorrells, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 196669177

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Flowering n = 18,315 observations

Peak flowering in Apr, from 18,315 community-annotated observations worldwide. This is a global aggregate, not a forecast for your garden: the same species flowers on different dates in different hemispheres, and citizen-science records cluster near cities, at weekends, and in spring. Where a species has fewer than 30 annotated records we do not draw this chart at all.

Also published as 20 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Claytonia acutiflora (DC.) Sweet
  • Claytonia bodinii Holz.
  • Claytonia cautiflora Sweet
  • Claytonia grandiflora Sweet
  • Claytonia media (DC.) Small
  • Claytonia media (DC.) Link
  • Claytonia multicaulis var. robusta Somes
  • Claytonia robusta (Somes) Rydb.
  • Claytonia simsii Sweet
  • Claytonia virginica f. hammondiae Kalmb.
  • Claytonia virginica f. lutea R.J.Davis
  • Claytonia virginica f. micropetala Fernald
  • Claytonia virginica f. robusta (Somes) E.J.Palmer & Steyerm.
  • Claytonia virginica f. virginica
  • Claytonia virginica var. graminifolia Gatt.
  • Claytonia virginica var. hammondiae (Kalmb.) Doyle, Lewis & D.B.Snyder
  • Claytonia virginica var. latifolia Torr.
  • Claytonia virginica var. media DC.
  • Claytonia virginica var. simsii (Sweet) R.J.Davis
  • Claytonia virginica var. virginica

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice, no toxicity claim and no native range, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.