Common (vernacular) names applied to California vascular plants
compiled by Elizabeth Painter
up to date as of May 1, 2016
Common names (also referred to as vernacular names) are applied differently at different times and places by different users. This list is compiled from many sources and is intended to be as comprehensive as possible. It is not intended to indicate which common name is correct or preferred. Please send comments about this page to Elizabeth Painter (beth.painter.48@gmail.com).
| Taxon | Claytonia megarhiza |
| group | Eudicots |
| Family | Montiaceae |
| Family common name(s) | montia |
| Genus common name(s) | claytonia; spring-beauty; spring beauty; springbeauty; good-morning-spring; good-morning spring; good morning spring; goodmorningspring |
| Species common name(s) | fell-fields claytonia; fell fields claytonia; fellfields claytonia; fellfields spring-beauty; fellfields spring beauty; alpine spring-beauty; alpine spring beauty; alpine springbeauty; big-rooted claytonia; big-rooted spring-beauty; big rooted spring-beauty; big rooted spring beauty; big-rooted spring beauty; big-rooted springbeauty; big-root spring-beauty; big-root spring beauty; big root spring beauty; thick-root claytonia; thickroot claytonia |
| | | | | Common name(s) generally applied to other taxa or multiple taxa | rock montia, rock spring-beauty, rock spring beauty, rock springbeauty, Rydberg's claytonia are applied to multiple Claytonia taxa; miner's-lettuce, miner's lettuce, miners' lettuce, miners lettuce, minerslettuce, minor's lettuce are applied to taxa in multiple families |
| Common name(s), rejected | not recommended (possibly pejorative or derogatory): squaw lettuce, squaw-lettuce, squawlettuce, squaw-cabbage, squaw cabbage; not recommended: Indian-lettuce, Indian lettuce, Indianlettuce |
| Notes | Rydberg is a proper name, so upper case preferable; Rydbergs is an error |
| Synonymy: The Jepson Manual (1993), FNA, PLANTS, etc | Portulacaceae; var. bellidifolia (Rydb.) C.L. Hitchc.; Claytonia bellidifolia Rydb. |
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