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small-flowered catchfly

Habit Plants annual; taproots slender.
Stems

erect, 10–40 cm; short-rough-hairy to minutely bristly; viscid above.

Leaves

basal oblanceolate or spatulate, 1–3.5 cm × 3–5 mm, often withering;

cauline oblanceolate to oblong, 0.8–2.5 cm × 2–4 mm, gradually reduced upward.

Inflorescences

terminal; open cymes, 1-sided;

pedicels 0 or short, densely glandular puberulent.

Flowers

bisexual, ascending to erect;

calyces narrowly tubular-ovoid, enlarging slightly in fruit, 6–10 mm; long glandular-hairy especially on veins, prominently 10-veined, not netted above; pale commissures present;

lobes 2–2.5 mm; acute;

petal claws glabrous; appendages 2;

limbs entire to notched, 3–6 mm, white, pink, or lavender, often with a central pink/dark red spot;

stamens included;

styles 3, included.

Fruits

ovoid;

teeth 6;

stalks < 1 mm.

Seeds

~1 mm, red-brown, not winged.

2n

=24.

Silene gallica

Silene parishii

Distribution
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Discussion

Disturbed areas, roadsides, meadows, coastal bluffs. Flowering May–Aug. 0–700 m. CR, Est, Sisk, WV. CA, ID, WA; scattered in eastern North America; Europe. Exotic.

Common in disturbed areas, Silene gallica was first collected in Oregon in 1881.

Source Flora of Oregon, volume 2, page 571
Rich Rabeler, Ronald Hartman
Sibling taxa
S. acaulis, S. antirrhina, S. bernardina, S. bolanderi, S. bridgesii, S. campanulata, S. conoidea, S. dichotoma, S. dioica, S. douglasii, 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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