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Silene
Family: Caryophyllaceae
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Vascular plants of NE US and adjacent Canada
Fls perfect or sometimes unisexual; cal-tube (5-)10-30- veined, with 5 short teeth, variously hairy or glandular or glabrous, sometimes inflated; pet 5, the claw narrow, usually expanded above into evident auricles at the juncture with the blade, and usually with a pair of appendages on the inner surface at the juncture; stamens 10, styles 3, less often 4 or 5, rarely more; ovary usually stipitate, the stamens and pet often adnate to the stipe; capsule unilocular or more or less completely plurilocular, dehiscent by twice as many teeth as the number of styles, or less often by only as many teeth as styles; seeds reniform to globose, roughened; annual to perennial herbs with opposite (seldom whorled), entire, exstipulate lvs. 400, mostly N. Temp.

Gleason, Henry A. & Cronquist, Arthur J. 1991. Manual of vascular plants of northeastern United States and adjacent Canada. lxxv + 910 pp.

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Silene acaulis
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Silene aegyptiaca
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Silene alexandri
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Silene alpestris
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Silene anastomosans
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Silene antirrhina
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Silene aperta
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Silene apetala
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Silene aprica
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Silene arabica
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Silene arenarioides
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Silene argillosa
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Silene arguta
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Silene aristidis
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Silene armeria
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Silene artemisetorum
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Silene atlantica
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Silene atropurpurea
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Silene baccifera
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Silene behen
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Silene bellidifolia
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Silene bernardina
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Silene bipartita
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Silene boissieri
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Silene bolanderi
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Silene bornmuelleri
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Silene borysthenica
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Silene brahuica
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Silene bridgesii
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Silene burchellii
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Silene caesia
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Silene campanulata
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Silene caroliniana
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Silene catesbaei
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Silene cerastoides
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Silene chaetodonta
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Silene chalcedonica
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Silene chloraefolia
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Silene chlorantha
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Silene chlorifolia
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Silene ciliata
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Silene clokeyi
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Silene coeli-rosa
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Silene cognata
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Silene colorata
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Silene compacta
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Silene conica
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Silene coniflora
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Silene conoidea
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Silene coronaria
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