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Silene greenei
Species of carpetweed From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Silene greenei, commonly known as bell catchfly, is a species of flowering plant in the family Caryophyllaceae.[1][2][3] It is a perennial herb that is native to the western United States (Oregon and California).[2]
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Description
Specimens have a taproot and a stout, woody, many-branched caudex, producing many erect-to-straggling little branched flowering shoots. Stems are 5–40 cm long with trichomes, soft to scabrous with eglandular or viscid-glandular, especially distally. They have very rarely glabrous and with several pairs of two leaves with equaling or shorter than stem. Flowers have ten-veined sepals and are often greenish but rarely can be pink or purple. Seeds are brown and are 2-2.5 mm broad.[4]
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Distribution and habitat
The nominate subspecies S. g. greenei, the common bell catchfly, is native to northern California and southern Oregon.[5] S. g. angustifolia, the red mountain catchfly, is considered Critically Imperilled and only found in the mountains of California.[3]
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