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Silene taimyrensis

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Kingdom
  
Plantae

Family
  
Caryophyllaceae

Scientific name
  
Silene taimyrensis

Order
  
Caryophyllales

Genus
  
Silene

Rank
  
Species

Similar
  
Silene oregana, Silene perlmanii, Silene ovata, Silene verecunda, Silene multinervia

Silene taimyrensis, or Taimyr catchfly, is a herbaceous perennial in the Caryophyllaceae, or pink family. It is native to the Yukon and British Columbia in Canada and to Alaska. It is found to an elevation of a 1500 meters, growing in exposed subalpine to alpine locations with poor, rocky to sandy soils. 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. S. taimyrensis is known in the fossil record from the Late Pleistocene.

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Silene taimyrensis Wikipedia