Spring beauty rust | |
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Infesting Claytonia virginica | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Fungi |
Division: | Basidiomycota |
Class: | Pucciniomycetes |
Order: | Pucciniales |
Family: | Pucciniaceae |
Genus: | Puccinia |
Species: | P. mariae-wilsoniae
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Binomial name | |
Puccinia mariae-wilsoniae Clinton (1873)
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Puccinia mariae-wilsoniae, commonly known as the spring beauty rust,[1] is a species of rust fungus found in North America. A plant pathogen, it grows on the leaves of the spring beauty flowering plants Claytonia caroliniana and C. virginica.