How to grow Spring Beauty

Claytonia virginica

Partial Sun
OR
Dappled Sun
Medium

Spring ephemeral native to the Appalachian region. Will eventually form little colonies.

Seed Saving Spring beauty

Seeds don’t save well, plant them as soon as you can.

How long does Spring beauty take to grow?

These estimates for how long Spring beauty takes to sprout, grow and harvest are from real observations from real gardeners, right around the world.

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Spring beauty Folklore & Trivia

Forms edible corms, although you have to collect many plants to create food from them – considered emergency/starvation food source by some Appalachian miners. Foliage is also edible, and commonly prepared with bacon grease.

Other names for Spring beauty

Virginia springbeauty, tangle gut, miner's lettuce, fairy spud

Claytonia virginica L.

Footnotes

¹ www.wildflower.org/plants/result.php?id_plant=CLVI3