Silene scaposa |
Silene hookeri |
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Blue Mountain catchfly, Robinson's catchfly, stem campion |
Hooker's campion, Hooker's catchfly, Hooker's Indian pink, Hooker's silene |
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Habit | Plants perennial, subscapose, cespitose; taproot stout; caudex branched, woody. | Herbs, perennial; caudex much-branched, thick and woody. | ||||
Stems | several, erect, simple, 15–50 cm, puberulent, viscid-glandular distally. |
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 | mostly basal; basal marcescent, long-petiolate, densely tufted, blade 1-veined, narrowly oblanceolate, 2–10(–20) cm × 2–12(–20) mm, not fleshy, base tapering to petiole, apex acute to obtuse, finely puberulent on both surfaces; cauline in 1–3 pairs, sessile, much reduced, blade linear-lanceolate, not fleshy. |
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 | 1–5(–7)-flowered, with terminal flower and lateral, open, pedunculate cymes often reduced to single flowers, bracteate; bracts narrowly lanceolate, 3–10(–20) mm. |
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 | erect, elongate, 0.5–4.5 cm, glandular-puberulent. |
ascending, straight, 1–6 cm, with a short canescence. |
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Flowers | calyx prominently 10-veined, those to lobes lance-shaped broadened and thickened distally, commissural veins slender, not forked distally, campanulate, 10–12 × 3.5–5 mm in flower, enlarging to 15 × 10 mm in fruit, not contracted around carpophore, papery, margins dentate, glandular-pubescent, viscid, veins parallel, with pale commissures, lobes patent, ovate, 1.5–4 mm, rigid, margins broad, membranous; corolla off-white to dingy purple-red, clawed, claw exceeding calyx, ciliate proximally, broadened distally, limbs erect, 2–4-lobed, less than 1/2 length of calyx, lobes 2–5 mm, appendages 2–4, 0.5–1 mm; stamens slightly exserted; filaments lanate, expanded at base; styles 3–5, ± equaling calyx. |
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 | slightly longer than calyx, opening by 3–5 teeth; carpophore 1.5–2.5 mm. |
ovoid to oblong, equaling calyx, dehiscing by 6 teeth; carpophore 2–5 mm. |
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Seeds | brown, reniform, 1.2–2 mm, margins with large, inflated papillae, rugose on sides. |
dark brown to black, reniform, ca. 2 mm broad, with concentric rings of small papillae. |
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2n | = 48. |
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Silene scaposa |
Silene hookeri |
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Phenology | Flowering early summer. | |||||
Habitat | Subalpine grassy, gravelly, or rocky slopes, ponderosa pine forests, juniper scrub, sagebrush | |||||
Elevation | 900-3000 m (3000-9800 ft) | |||||
Distribution |
CO; ID; NV; OR
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CA; OR
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Discussion | Silene scaposa is a very distinct species with its subscapose inflorescence, coronalike ring of short petals, and distended fruiting calyx in which the veins to the lobes are markedly broadened and lanceolate. Variation in lobing of the corolla has been the basis for recognizing two varieties: var. scaposa (var. typica C. L. Hitchcock & Maguire), which has two-lobed petals, and var. lobata, which has four-lobed petals. However, these differences appear to be of little significance. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
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. 202. | FNA vol. 5, p. 186. | ||||
Parent taxa | Caryophyllaceae > subfam. Caryophylloideae > Silene | Caryophyllaceae > subfam. Caryophylloideae > Silene | ||||
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Synonyms | S. scaposa var. lobata | |||||
Name authority | B. L. Robinson: Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts 28: 145. (1893) | Nuttall: in J. Torrey and A. Gray, Fl. N. Amer. 1: 193. (1838) | ||||
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