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|accepted_name=Claytonia rosea
|accepted_authority=Rydberg
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Bull. Torrey Bot. Club
|place=31: 404. 1904
|year=1904
}}
|common_names=Rocky Mountain spring beauty
|basionyms=
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Claytonia lanceolata var. rosea
|authority=(Rydberg) R. J. Davis
|rank=variety
}}
|hierarchy=Portulacaceae;Claytonia;Claytonia rosea
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Portulacaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Claytonia]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Claytonia rosea]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 4
|mention_page=page 466, 469
|treatment_page=page 472
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>perennial, with globose tubers 20–100 mm; periderm 5–10 mm. <b>Stems</b> 2–15 cm. <b>Leaves</b>: basal leaves sometimes absent, petiolate, blade linear to narrowly spatulate, 1–7 × 0.4–2 cm, apex acute to obtuse; cauline leaves petiolate, blade linear, 2–5 cm, apex acute to obtuse. <b>Inflorescences</b> multibracteate, rarely 1-bracteate; proximalmost bract leaflike, distal bracts reduced to membranous scales. <b>Flowers</b> 8–14 mm diam.; sepals 3–5 mm; petals pink, rose, or magenta, 8–10 mm; ovules 6. <b>Seeds</b> 2–3 mm, shiny and smooth; elaiosome 1–2 mm. <b>2n</b> = 16.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering Feb–May.
|habitat=Hillsides and mesas of montane ponderosa and Chihuahuan pine and oak belts
|elevation=800-2400 m
|distribution=Ariz.;Colo.;N.Mex.;Utah;Mexico.
|discussion=<p><i>Claytonia rosea</i> is morphologically distinct from <i>C. lanceolata</i> based on early cytological and ecological study of the two species by D. K. Halleck and D. Wiens (1966) and the author’s review of type material.</p>
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name=Claytonia rosea
|authority=Rydberg
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=Claytonia lanceolata var. rosea
|basionyms=
|family=Portulacaceae
|phenology=Flowering Feb–May.
|habitat=Hillsides and mesas of montane ponderosa and Chihuahuan pine and oak belts
|elevation=800-2400 m
|distribution=Ariz.;Colo.;N.Mex.;Utah;Mexico.
|reference=None
|publication title=Bull. Torrey Bot. Club
|publication year=1904
|special status=
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|genus=Claytonia
|species=Claytonia rosea
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