Silene douglasii
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Silene douglasii is a species of flowering plant in the family Caryophyllaceae known by the common name Douglas's catchfly.{{PLANTS|id=SIDO|taxon=Silene douglasii|accessdate=14 November 2015}}
It is native to western North America from British Columbia to California to Wyoming, where it grows in several habitat types, including forests, woodlands, and coastal scrub.
Description
Silene douglasii is a tufted perennial herb growing from a branching caudex and taproot, its stems decumbent to upright and up to 70 centimeters long. The stem is coated in curly or feltlike gray-white hairs. The lance-shaped leaves are up to 6 centimeters long on the lower stem and are smaller higher up.
Each flower is encapsulated in a cylindrical inflated calyx of sepals lined with ten green or purple-red veins. It is open at the tip, revealing five white, pink or purplish petals, each with two wide lobes at the tip.
=Varieties=
There are three varieties of this species.
- Silene douglasii var. douglasii [http://plants.usda.gov/plant-profile?symbol=SIDOD USDA: Silene douglasii var. douglasii][http://www.calflora.org/cgi-bin/species_query.cgi?where-calrecnum=7596 Calflora: Silene douglasii var. douglasii]
- Silene douglasii var. oraria — Seabluff catchfly, rare and endemic to the Oregon coastline.[http://plants.usda.gov/plant-profile?symbol=SIDOO USDA: Silene douglasii var. oraria]
- Silene douglasii var. rupinae [http://plants.usda.gov/plant-profile?symbol=SIDOR USDA: Silene douglasii var. rupinae]
References
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External links
- [http://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/cgi-bin/get_JM_treatment.pl?2907,3003,3014 Jepson Manual Treatment of Silene douglasii]
- [https://plants.usda.gov/java/profile?symbol=SIDO USDA Plants Profile for Silene douglasii (Douglas catchfly)]
- [http://www.calflora.org/cgi-bin/species_query.cgi?where-calrecnum=7596 CalFlora Database: Silene douglasii (Douglas Catchfly, Douglas' campion, Douglas's catchfly, seabluff catchfly)]
- [http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=1&taxon_id=250060843 Flora of North America]
- [http://biology.burke.washington.edu/herbarium/imagecollection.php?Genus=Silene&Species=douglasii Washington Burke Museum]
- [http://calphotos.berkeley.edu/cgi/img_query?query_src=photos_index&where-taxon=Silene+douglasii UC Photos gallery: Silene douglasii]
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Category:Flora of the Northwestern United States
Category:Flora of British Columbia
Category:Flora of the Cascade Range
Category:Flora of the Klamath Mountains
Category:Flora of the Sierra Nevada (United States)
Category:Natural history of the California chaparral and woodlands
Category:Flora without expected TNC conservation status
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