Silene hookeri |
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Hooker's campion, Hooker's catchfly, Hooker's Indian pink, Hooker's silene |
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Habit | Herbs, perennial; caudex much-branched, thick and woody. | ||||
Stems | solitary or numerous, decumbent and rooting at base, becoming erect, 5–14(–25) cm, with gray, soft, curly to retrorsely crispate pubescence, rarely glandular. |
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Leaves | blade spatulate or narrowly lanceolate to oblanceolate, sometimes broadly so, 4–7(–10) cm × 8–12(–20) mm, reduced toward base, apex acute, pubescent on both surfaces, especially on midrib; subterranean bractlike, papery. |
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Inflorescences | reduced to single, terminal flower or open, (1–)3–5(–9)-flowered cyme, bracteate; bracts leaflike, reduced distally to ca. 1 cm. |
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Pedicels | ascending, straight, 1–6 cm, with a short canescence. |
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Flowers | calyx 10-veined, broadly tubular in flower, 12–25 5–8 mm, turbinate in fruit and swelling in middle to ca. 10 mm broad, canescent, rarely sparsely pubescent or glandular; lobes lanceolate, 4–7 mm, with narrow, membranous margins, apex acute; corolla coral pink or white, clawed, claw equaling calyx; limb 4-lobed, usually deeply so, rarely 2-lobed with smaller lateral teeth, lobes 7–22 mm, appendages 2, linear, 1.5–3.5 mm (absent in subsp. bolanderi); stamens slightly longer than corolla claw; stigmas 3, slightly longer than corolla claw. |
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Capsules | ovoid to oblong, equaling calyx, dehiscing by 6 teeth; carpophore 2–5 mm. |
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Seeds | dark brown to black, reniform, ca. 2 mm broad, with concentric rings of small papillae. |
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Silene hookeri |
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Distribution |
CA; OR
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Discussion | Subspecies 2 (2 in the flora). (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
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Source | FNA vol. 5, p. 186. | ||||
Parent taxa | Caryophyllaceae > subfam. Caryophylloideae > Silene | ||||
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Name authority | Nuttall: in J. Torrey and A. Gray, Fl. N. Amer. 1: 193. (1838) | ||||
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