Biology:Silene taimyrensis
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Short description: Species of flowering plant
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Order: | Caryophyllales |
| Family: | Caryophyllaceae |
| Genus: | Silene |
| Species: | S. taimyrensis
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| Silene taimyrensis (Tolm.) Bocquet
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Silene taimyrensis, or Taimyr catchfly,[1] is a herbaceous perennial in the family Caryophyllaceae. It is native to the Yukon and British Columbia in Canada and to Alaska.[2] It is found to an elevation of a 1500 meters, growing in exposed subalpine to alpine locations with poor, rocky to sandy soils.[2] It grows to a height of 40 cm in its native habitat and to twice that height as a garden plant; it has small, white to light pink flowers that grow in terminal clusters.[2] S. taimyrensis is known in the fossil record from the Late Pleistocene.[3]
References
- ↑ "Silene taimyrensis". Natural Resources Conservation Service PLANTS Database. USDA. https://plants.usda.gov/core/profile?symbol=SITA. Retrieved 15 November 2015.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 William J. Cody (2000). Flora of the Yukon Territory. NRC Press (Canada).
- ↑ Grant D. Zazula (2006). "Vegetation buried under Dawson tephra (25,300 14 C years BP) and locally diverse late Pleistocene paleoenvironments of Goldbottom Creek, Yukon, Canada". Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 242 (3–4): 253–286. doi:10.1016/j.palaeo.2006.06.005. Bibcode: 2006PPP...242..253Z.
Wikidata ☰ Q7514505 entry
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