Missouri Plants Spring beauty   (Claytonia virginica) Tracheophyta: Angiosperm: Dicot: Purslane (Portulacaceae) Native North American Plant Habitat: full to part sun areas of fields. ID Features: pink flowers in spring. Natural History: Spring beauty is one of the first plants to flower in the spring. It has white to pale pink flowers that are born atop short stalks. Its leaves are strap-like. It grows in lawns, fields, and forest floors throughout the state.

The information is from: Missouri Wildflowers by Edgar Denison, 5th Edition, Missouri Department of Conservation, ©1998.