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Scientific or common name:

Silene alba (Mill.) Krause


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

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Name: Silene alba (Mill.) Krause Taxon selection
Rank: species
See: ► Silene latifolia Poir. ssp. alba (Mill.) Greuter & Burdet

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Common names

US name U.S. name: Bladder campion
en English name: white campion
English name: white cockle
Italian name: Silene bianca

Grown habit: Forb/herb
Duration: Biennial, Perennial
 

Synonyms:
= Silene latifolia Poir. ssp. alba (Mill.) Greuter & Burdet
= Lychnis alba Mill.
= Lychnis x loveae B. Boivin
= Lychnis vespertina Sibth.
= Melandrium album (Mill.) Garcke
= Silene pratensis (Raf.) Gren. & Godr.



TAXONOMY

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


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Silene alba
Silene alba
Jacob Sturm, Johann Georg Sturm - Deutschlands Flora in Abbildungen (1796). - This image is in the public domain because its copyright has expired.


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Distribution in USA and Canada (*)
USA (AK, AL, AR, CA, CO, CT, DC, DE, GA, IA, ID, IL, IN, KS, KY, MA, MD, ME, MI, MN, MO, MT, NC, ND, NE, NH, NJ, NM, NV, NY, OH, OR, PA, RI, SC, SD, TN, UT, VA, VT, WA, WI, WV, WY)

Distributional map for Silene alba (Mill.) Krause
Map for Silene alba (Mill.) Krause
(*) 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 andersonii Clokey [88]
2) Silene anglica L. [173]
3) Silene antirrhina L. [381]
4) Silene antirrhina L. var. depauperata Rydb. [153]
5) Silene antirrhina L. var. laevigata Engelm. & A. Gray [191]
6) Silene apetala Willd. [excluded] [317]
7) Silene campanulata S. Watson var. greenei S. Watson [127]
8) Silene conica L. [704]
9) Silene dioica (L.) Clairville [667]
10) Silene inaperta L. [306]

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