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Hooker's catchfly

Habit Plants perennial; caudex woody.
Stems

decumbent to erect, 4–25 cm;

branches many;

hairs appressed below, often glandular-puberulent above.

Leaves

oblanceolate to spatulate, 2–8 cm × 5–15(25) mm; largest near middle of stem; upper leaves overlapping with or exceeding pedicels.

Inflorescences

terminal; open cymes, not 1-sided, or flowers solitary;

pedicels short-hairy, glandular or not.

Flowers

bisexual, ascending to erect;

calyces broadly tubular, enlarging in fruit, 12–20 mm, densely short-hairy or glandular-hairy, 10-veined, not netted above; commissures narrow; pale;

lobes 4–7 mm;

tips acute;

petal claws glabrous or slightly ciliate at base; appendages 2;

limbs 10–15 mm, pink or white, rarely bright red;

lobes 4, 5–10 mm; of equal size or 2 inner > outer;

stamens slightly exserted;

styles 3, exserted.

Fruits

ovoid to oblong;

teeth 6;

stalks 0.5–5 mm.

Seeds

~2 mm; dark-brown to black, not winged.

Silene stellata

Silene hookeri

Distribution
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Discussion

California and Oregon. 4 subspecies; 2 subspecies treated in Flora.

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. 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. 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
Subordinate taxa
S. hookeri ssp. hookeri, S. hookeri ssp. serpentinicola
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