Silene gallica |
Silene parishii |
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small-flowered catchfly |
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Habit | Plants annual; taproots slender. | |
Stems | erect, 10–40 cm; short-rough-hairy to minutely bristly; viscid above. |
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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. |
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Inflorescences | terminal; open cymes, 1-sided; pedicels 0 or short, densely glandular puberulent. |
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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. |
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Fruits | ovoid; teeth 6; stalks < 1 mm. |
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Seeds | ~1 mm, red-brown, not winged. |
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2n | =24. |
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Silene gallica |
Silene parishii |
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Distribution | ||
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. |
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Source | Flora of Oregon, volume 2, page 571 Rich Rabeler, Ronald Hartman |
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