Plants of USA and Canada

Scientific or common name:

Silene furcata Raf.


CARYOPHYLLACEAE Family selection - Pink family (Angiosperms - Flowering plants)

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Name: Silene furcata Raf. Taxon selection
Nomencl. ref.: Autik. Bot. 28. 1840 ; cf. Fernald in Rhodora, 1932, 34: 22, 25
Rank: species
See: ► Silene involucrata (Cham. & Schltdl.) Bocquet ssp. involucrata

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Common names

US name U.S. name: Arctic catchfly

Grown habit: Forb/herb
Duration: Perennial
 

Synonyms:
= Silene involucrata (Cham. & Schltdl.) Bocquet ssp. involucrata
= Gastrolychnis affinis (J. Vahl ex Fr.) Tolm. & Kozh.
= Gastrolychnis involucrata (Cham. & Schltdl.) A. Löve & D. Löve
= Lychnis affinis J. Vahl ex Fr.
= Lychnis furcata (Raf.) Fernald
= Lychnis gillettii B. Boivin
= Melandrium affine (J. Vahl ex Fr.) J. Vahl
= Melandrium furcatum (Raf.) Hadac



TAXONOMY

Kingdom: Plantae
Subkingdom: Tracheobionta
Superdivision: Spermatophyta
Division: Magnoliophyta
Class: Magnoliopsida
Subclass: Caryophyllidae
Order: Caryophyllales
Family: Caryophyllaceae
Genus: Silene
Species:


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Distribution in USA and Canada (*)
USA (AK), CAN (AB, BC, LB, MB, NT, NU, ON, QC, YT), DEN (GL)

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(*) USDA, NRCS. 2009. The PLANTS Database (http://plants.usda.gov, 28 August 2009). National Plant Data Center, Baton Rouge, LA 70874-4490 USA



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More species:
1) Silene gallica L. [1294]
2) Silene glauca Lag., nom. illeg. [144]
3) Silene inaperta L. [308]
4) Silene ingramii Tidestr. & Dayton [126]
5) Silene italica (L.) Pers. [610]
6) Silene lanceolata A. Gray var. forbesii Sherff [136]
7) Silene latifolia Poir. ssp. alba (Mill.) Greuter & Burdet [1062]
8) Silene montana S. Watson ssp. bernardina (S. Watson) C.L. Hitchc. & Maguire [142]
9) Silene nutans L. [2174]
10) Silene pratensis (Raf.) Gren. & Godr. [135]

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