Claytonia ogilviensis

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Claytonia ogilviensis, common name Ogilvie Mountains spring beauty, is a plant endemic to the Ogilvie Mountains and the Dawson Range in the Yukon Territory of Canada. These mountains extend into Alaska, and one of the known populations is less than 1 km from the border, so it would not be surprising if the plant were to be found in Alaska as well.[http://aknhp.uaa.alaska.edu/rareguide/pdfs/31-32co.pdf University of Alaska Anchorage, Plant Field Guide, Ogilvie Mountains spring beauty]{{Cite web |last=Yukon Conservation Data Centre |date=2019 |title=Rare Plant Information Sheet: Ogilvie Mountain Spring Beauty |url=https://yukon.ca/sites/yukon.ca/files/env/env-ogilvie-mountain-spring-beauty.pdf |access-date=15 March 2022 |website=Environment Yukon}}

Claytonia ogilviensis is a perennial herb with round or turnip-shaped tubers up to 25 mm in diameter, spreading by means of underground rhizomes. Stems are up to 8 cm tall. Leaves are generally round, up to 2.5 cm in diameter. Flowers are borne in umbels with leaf-like bracts. Flowers are bright purple, up to 20 mm in diameter.

[http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=1&taxon_id=107275 Flora of North America v 4 p 465][http://www.nrcresearchpress.com/doi/abs/10.1139/b72-239#.UxZkJYXFkYI McNeill, John. 1972. New taxa of Claytonia section Claytonia (Portulacaceae). Canadian Journal of Botany 50(9): 1895–1896].Cody, W. J. 1996. Flora of the Yukon Territory i–xvii, 1–669. NRC Research Press, Ottawa.Miller, J. M. and K. L. Chambers. 2006. Systematics of Claytonia (Portulacaceae). Systematic Botany Monographs 78: 1-236. {{ISBN|0-912861-78-9}}