Silene gallica |
Silene caroliniana |
|
---|---|---|
windmill pink |
||
Habit | Annual, the stems simple or branched, 1-4 dm. tall, conspicuously pubescent with stiff, white hairs, glandular-pubescent above. | |
Leaves | Leaves opposite, the few basal leaves oblanceolate to spatulate, broadly petiolate; cauline leaves narrower, 1.5-4 cm. long and 2-8 mm. broad. |
|
Flowers | Flowers several to numerous in a simple to compound, leafy-bracteate raceme; calyx tubular, 5-lobed, 10-nerved, 6-9 mm. long, inflating in fruit, constricted at the orifice, glandular-pubescent, with stiff hairs up to 2 mm. long; petals 5, whitish to pink, lavender, or deep purple; claw of the petal narrow, 4-6 mm. long, the blade elliptic-obovate, usually entire, slightly twisted, making the corolla look like a pinwheel; blade appendages 2, linear, entire, 1 mm. long; ovary stalk 1 mm. long; stamens 10; styles 3. |
|
Fruits | Capsule 3-celled. |
|
Silene gallica |
Silene caroliniana |
|
Flowering time | May-July | |
Habitat | Weed of disturbed soil and wasteland. | |
Distribution | Occurring west of the Cascades crest in lowland western Washington; British Columbia to California, east to the Rocky Mountains; also in eastern North America.
|
|
Origin | Introduced from Europe | |
Conservation status | Not of concern | |
Sibling taxa | ||
Web links |
|