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sleepy catchfly

Habit Plants annual; taproots slender.
Stems

erect, 12–80 cm, glabrous or retrorsely puberulent; upper internodes usually viscid.

Leaves

basal leaves oblanceolate to spatulate, 1–3(6) cm × 3–6(10) mm; upper cauline leaves linear to narrowly oblanceolate, gradually reduced upward.

Inflorescences

terminal; open cymes, not 1-sided;

pedicels glabrous.

Flowers

bisexual; erect;

calyces ovate to campanulate, not inflated in fruit, 4–9 mm, glabrous, 10-veined, not netted above; pale commissures present;

lobes 1 mm;

tips acute;

petal claws glabrous (or rarely petals absent); appendages 0 or to 0.4 mm;

limbs ~2.5 mm, white to red;

lobes 2;

stamens included;

styles 3, included.

Fruits

ovoid;

teeth 6;

stalks 1 mm.

Seeds

0.5–0.8 mm, gray-black, not winged.

2n

=24.

Silene antirrhina

Silene occidentalis

Distribution
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Discussion

Roadsides, meadows, slopes, open woods. Flowering May–Jul. 0–1200 m. BW, Casc, CR, ECas, Lava, Sisk, WV. CA, ID, NV, WA; throughout North America; Europe, South America. Native.

Source Flora of Oregon, volume 2, page 568
Rich Rabeler, Ronald Hartman
Sibling taxa
S. acaulis, S. bernardina, S. bolanderi, S. bridgesii, S. campanulata, S. conoidea, S. dichotoma, S. dioica, S. douglasii, S. gallica, S. grayi, S. hookeri, S. latifolia, S. lemmonii, S. menziesii, S. noctiflora, S. nuda, S. oregana, S. parryi, S. pectinata, S. pendula, S. scaposa, S. scouleri, S. spaldingii, S. suksdorfii, S. vulgaris
S. acaulis, S. antirrhina, S. bernardina, S. bolanderi, S. bridgesii, S. campanulata, S. conoidea, S. dichotoma, S. dioica, S. douglasii, S. gallica, S. grayi, S. hookeri, S. latifolia, S. lemmonii, S. menziesii, S. noctiflora, S. nuda, S. oregana, S. parryi, S. pectinata, S. pendula, S. scaposa, S. scouleri, S. spaldingii, S. suksdorfii, S. vulgaris
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