Biology:Silene occidentalis
| Silene occidentalis | |
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| Herbarium specimen, subsp. longistipata | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Order: | Caryophyllales |
| Family: | Caryophyllaceae |
| Genus: | Silene |
| Species: | S. occidentalis
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| Binomial name | |
| Silene occidentalis S.Watson 1875
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Silene occidentalis is a species of flowering plant in the family Caryophyllaceae known by the common names western catchfly[1] and western campion.
It is endemic to northern California , where it is known from the southern Cascade Range and sections of the Modoc Plateau and Sierra Nevada. It grows in chaparral and mountain forest habitat.
Description
Silene occidentalis is a perennial herb growing from a woody, leafy caudex and taproot, sending up an erect, mostly unbranched stem which may be 60 centimeters tall. The lance-shaped leaves are up to 12 centimeters long around the caudex, and shorter farther up the stem. Flowers occur in a terminal cyme and sometimes in leaf axils. Each flower is encapsulated in a hairy, glandular calyx of fused sepals. The calyx in this species can be very long, nearly 4 centimeters in length in subspecies longistipata. At the end are five pink petals, each with usually four fringelike lobes at the tip.
References
- ↑ "Silene occidentalis". Natural Resources Conservation Service PLANTS Database. USDA. https://plants.usda.gov/core/profile?symbol=SIOC. Retrieved 15 November 2015.
External links
- Jepson Manual Treatment of Silene occidentalis
- USDA Plants Profile for Silene occidentalis
- Flora of North America
- UC Photos gallery: Silene occidentalis
Wikidata ☰ Q7514482 entry
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