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§1 Plant
Claytonia exigua Torr. & A. Gray
vernacular serpentine springbeauty — species · Portulacaceae
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Forb/herb
- Duration
- Annual
- Group
- Dicot
- Family
- Portulacaceae Dumort.
- Genus
- Claytonia
Native status, by region
- CAN Canada Native
- L48 Lower 48 States Native
County-level range
· 78 counties across 4 states/territories§3Cultivation
No cultivation specs.
USDA has not characterised this taxon. Roughly four out of five plants in the database lack the detailed cultivation record present here — typically because they have not been the focus of NRCS Plant Materials work. Range and distribution data are unaffected.
§4Counties, by state
Recorded in 78 counties across 4 states/territories.
California view state ↗ 39 N ▾
- Alameda 06001
- Amador 06005
- Butte 06007
- Colusa 06011
- Contra Costa 06013
- Fresno 06019
- Glenn 06021
- Humboldt 06023
- Kern 06029
- Lake 06033
- Los Angeles 06037
- Marin 06041
- Mendocino 06045
- Merced 06047
- Monterey 06053
- Napa 06055
- Nevada 06057
- Orange 06059
- Placer 06061
- Plumas 06063
- San Benito 06069
- San Diego 06073
- San Francisco 06075
- San Luis Obispo 06079
- San Mateo 06081
- Santa Barbara 06083
- Santa Clara 06085
- Santa Cruz 06087
- Shasta 06089
- Siskiyou 06093
- Solano 06095
- Sonoma 06097
- Stanislaus 06099
- Sutter 06101
- Tehama 06103
- Trinity 06105
- Tulare 06107
- Tuolumne 06109
- Ventura 06111
Nevada view state ↗ 2 N ▾
Oregon view state ↗ 24 N ▾
- Benton 41003
- Clatsop 41007
- Columbia 41009
- Coos 41011
- Crook 41013
- Curry 41015
- Deschutes 41017
- Douglas 41019
- Gilliam 41021
- Hood River 41027
- Jackson 41029
- Jefferson 41031
- Josephine 41033
- Lane 41039
- Lincoln 41041
- Linn 41043
- Marion 41047
- Polk 41053
- Sherman 41055
- Tillamook 41057
- Wasco 41065
- Washington 41067
- Wheeler 41069
- Yamhill 41071
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/CLEX2 ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/3084730 ↗Record version
Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:
usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26
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