Virginia Spring Beauty, a native species, has been added to the USWildflowers.com database. Scientific name is Claytonia virginica. This plant also goes by the common name Narrow-leaved Spring Beauty.
Virginia Spring Beauty – Claytonia virginica
Virginia Spring Beauty – Claytonia virginica – Added to USWildflowers Database
Gerry:
My wife is going visit The Pocket/Pigeon Mountain with a group (Dunwoody GC? DeKalb MGs? I’m not sure!) this Wednesday and she asked me to print some pages from your website for her trip.
What a beautiful labor of love you have created on this website. Thanks for what you do!
— Steve Barton
Dunwoody, Georgia
Thank you, Steve, for your kind comment. It’s so very encouraging.
found a wildflower in Central Pennsylvania, leave very much like Spring Beauty, but purple color, 6 part flower. It has been unusually warm this year, so it may be an April flower. Your photo of Virginia Spring Beauty looks similar, but the flower is deeper purple.
This tiniest plant (which I believe to be Claytonia virginica) is the first to show itself above ground in springtime and (so far) continues to be a relict in Canyon, Randall County, Texas.
It continues to live at one known location in Canyon, Randall County, Texas. Years ago it was found near a playa (ephemeral lake) south side of Amarillo, but it is unknown (and unlikely) to have persisted there.