- Claytonia, genus Claytonia - genus of mainly North American succulent herbs with white or pink flowers usually in terminal racemes
--1 is a kind of caryophylloid dicot genus
--1 is a member of Portulacaceae, family Portulacaceae, purslane family
--1 has members:Carolina spring beauty, Claytonia caroliniana; spring beauty, Clatonia lanceolata; Virginia spring beauty, Claytonia virginica