Silene acaulis (L.) Jacq.

Silene acaulis (L.) Jacq.

CARYOPHYLLACEAE

- Pink family (Angiosperms - Flowering plants)

Taxon Page:

Name: Silene acaulis (L.) Jacq.

Nomencl. ref.: Enum. Stirp. Vindob. 78, 242 (1762)
Rank: species

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Common names

U.S. name: Moss campion

English name: cushion-pink

English name: moss campion

French name: silène acaule

Italian name: Silene a cuscinetto

German name: stängelloses Leimkraut

Grown habit: Forb/herb
Duration: Perennial

Synonyms:

Subspecies / Varieties:
1) Silene acaulis (L.) Jacq. ssp. arctica A. Löve & D. Löve
2) Silene acaulis (L.) Jacq. ssp. subacaulescens (F.N. Williams) Hultén
3) Silene acaulis (L.) Jacq. var. acaulis (L.) Jacq. [excluded]
4) Silene acaulis (L.) Jacq. var. exscapa (All.) DC.
5) Silene acaulis (L.) Jacq. var. subacaulescens (F.N. Williams) Fernald & H. St. John

TAXONOMY

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

Page counter: 2121 ( AVG: 221.84 / 290.709 )

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Silene acaulis
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Silene acaulis
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Silene acaulis
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Silene acaulis
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Silene acaulis
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Silene acaulis
Walter Hood Fitch - Illustrations of the British Flora (1924) - Permission granted to use under GFDL by Kurt Stueber. Source: www.biolib.de - Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this image under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.3 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled "GNU Free Documentation License".

Silene acaulis
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Silene acaulis
Credit: Photo by Enzo De Santis

Silene acaulis
Credit: Photo by Pierfranco Arrigoni - Valmadrera (LC)

Silene acaulis
Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita, Università di Trieste - Progetto Dryades - Picture by Andrea Moro - Comune di Gressoney La Trinité, pendici del Monte Rosa nei pressi del lago Gabiet., AO, Valle d'Aosta, Italia, - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share-Alike 3.0 License

Silene acaulis
Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita, Università di Trieste - Progetto Dryades - Picture by Andrea Moro - Comune di Forni Avoltri, località Collina, Rifugio Marinelli., UD, FVG, Italia, - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share-Alike 3.0 License

Silene acaulis
Credit: Photo by Umberto Ferrando

Silene acaulis
USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913. An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British Possessions. Vol. 2: 63.

Silene acaulis
Credit: Photo by Aldo De Bastiani

Silene acaulis
Credit: Photo by Daniela Longo

Silene acaulis
Credit: Photo by Aldo De Bastiani

Silene acaulis
Credit: Photo by Pierfranco Arrigoni - Valmadrera (LC)

Silene acaulis
Credit: Photo by Marco Banzato

Silene acaulis
Credit: Photo by Enzo De Santis

Silene acaulis
Credit: Photo by Umberto Ferrando

Silene acaulis
Picture modified from Graebner, Paul - Taschenbuch zum Pflanzenbestimmen (1918) - Permission granted to use under GFDL by Kurt Stueber. Source: www.biolib.de - Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this image under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.3 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled GNU Free Documentation License.

Silene acaulis
Credit: Photo by Franco Fenaroli

Silene acaulis
Credit: Photo by Umberto Ferrando

Silene acaulis
Hippolyte Coste - Flore descriptive et illustrée de la France, de la Corse et des contrées limitrophes, 1901-1906 - This image is in public domain because its copyright has expired.

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Distribution in USA and Canada (*)
USA (AK, AZ, CO, ID, ME, MT, NH, NM, NV, OR, UT, WA, WY), CAN (AB, BC, LB, NF, NS, NT, NU, ON, QC, SK, YT), DEN (GL), FRA (SPM)

Distributional map for Silene acaulis (L.) Jacq.
Map for Silene acaulis (L.) Jacq.
(*) 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 acaulis (L.) Jacq. ssp. arctica A. Löve & D. Löve [156]
2) Silene acaulis (L.) Jacq. ssp. subacaulescens (F.N. Williams) Hultén [165]
3) Silene acaulis (L.) Jacq. var. subacaulescens (F.N. Williams) Fernald & H. St. John [388]
4) Silene andersonii Clokey [88]
5) Silene antirrhina L. [380]
6) Silene antirrhina L. var. divaricata B.L. Rob. [153]
7) Silene apetala Willd. [excluded] [317]
8) Silene campanulata S. Watson var. orbiculata B.L. Rob. [128]
9) Silene cryptopetala Hillebr. [278]
10) Silene flos-jovis (L.) Greuter & Burdet [957]

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