Silene stellata |
Silene hookeri |
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Hooker's catchfly |
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Habit | Plants perennial; caudex woody. | |
Stems | decumbent to erect, 4–25 cm; branches many; hairs appressed below, often glandular-puberulent above. |
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Leaves | oblanceolate to spatulate, 2–8 cm × 5–15(25) mm; largest near middle of stem; upper leaves overlapping with or exceeding pedicels. |
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Inflorescences | terminal; open cymes, not 1-sided, or flowers solitary; pedicels short-hairy, glandular or not. |
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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. |
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Fruits | ovoid to oblong; teeth 6; stalks 0.5–5 mm. |
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Seeds | ~2 mm; dark-brown to black, not winged. |
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Silene stellata |
Silene hookeri |
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Distribution | ||
Discussion | California and Oregon. 4 subspecies; 2 subspecies treated in Flora. |
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Source | Flora of Oregon, volume 2, page 571 Rich Rabeler, Ronald Hartman |
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