spring beauty
English
Noun
spring beauty (plural spring beauties)
- Any of various species of flowering plant of the genus Claytonia, primarily native to the Americas and northeastern Asia.
- 2010, Robert Michael Pyle, Mariposa Road: The First Butterfly Big Year (page 123)
- On the lane below, more orangetips nectared on spring beauties and violets.
- 2010, Robert Michael Pyle, Mariposa Road: The First Butterfly Big Year (page 123)
- (obsolete) A small American butterfly, the early hairstreak (Erora laeta), which appears in spring. The hind wings of the male are brown, bordered with deep blue; those of the female are mostly blue.
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References
spring beauty on Wikipedia.Wikipedia Claytonia on Wikispecies.Wikispecies Claytonia on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons - spring beauty at USDA Plants database
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