View source for Silene caroliniana

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|accepted_name=Silene caroliniana
|accepted_authority=Walter
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Fl. Carol.,
|place=142 [as 241]. 1788
|year=1788
}}
|common_names=Wild pink
|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=F
|label=Illustrated
}}{{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=E
|label=Endemic
}}
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Caryophyllaceae;Caryophyllaceae subfam. Caryophylloideae;Silene;Silene caroliniana
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Caryophyllaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>subfamily</small>[[Caryophyllaceae subfam. Caryophylloideae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Silene]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Silene caroliniana]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 5
|mention_page=page 171, 178
|treatment_page=page 177
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>perennial, cespitose; tap-root stout; caudex much-branched, woody. <b>Stems</b> ascending, scarcely branched, 8–20(–30) cm, softly pubescent, stipitate-glandular or eglandular, rarely glabrate. <b>Leaves</b> mostly basal, petiolate, 3–12 cm (including petiole); cauline leaves in 2–4 pairs, those of mid and distal stem sessile, shorter and narrower; blade narrowly to broadly oblanceolate, base spatulate into winged petiole, apex acute to obtuse, glabrous, puberulent or pilose on both surfaces and frequently stipitate-glandular, at least petioles usually ciliate. <b>Inflorescences</b> (1–)3–15-flowered, open, bracteate; bracts foliaceous. <b>Pedicels</b> ascending or erect, 0.2–0.8(–1.5) cm, densely pubescent and frequently stipitate-glandular. <b>Flowers</b>: calyx usually green, prominently 8–10-veined, in flower narrowly tubular, lobed, narrowed proximally around carpophore, 15–22 × to 5 mm, becoming broader and clavate in fruit, pilose or stipitate-glandular, veins parallel, with pale commissures, lobes round, 1–3 mm, margins usually purple tinged, broad, membranous; petals spreading, usually bright pink, rarely white, broadly to narrowly obovate, 2 times longer than calyx, base tapered into ciliate claw equaling or slightly longer than calyx, margins entire or shallowly lobed and crenulate, auricles absent, appendages oblong, unlobed, 1.5–2 mm; stamens equaling claw; filaments glabrous; styles 3(–4), ultimately slightly exceeding claw. <b>Capsules</b> ellipsoid to obovoid, 8–10 mm, equaling calyx, opening by 6 (or 8) recurved teeth; carpophore 5–8 mm. <b>Seeds</b> dark brown, reniform-rotund, 1.3–1.5 mm, coarsely and evenly papillate.</span><!--

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|distribution=Ala.;Conn.;D.C.;Del.;Ga.;Kans.;Ky.;Mass.;Md.;Mo.;N.C.;N.H.;N.J.;N.Y.;Ohio;Pa.;R.I.;S.C.;Tenn.;Va.;W.Va.
|discussion=<p>Subspecies 3 (3 in the flora).</p><!--
--><p>Although the three subspecies of <i>Silene caroliniana</i> have overlapping ranges of distribution, <i></i>subsp.<i> caroliniana</i> occurs predominently in the southeastern United States, <i></i>subsp.<i> pensylvanica</i> in the northeast, and <i></i>subsp.<i> wherryi</i> on the western side of the Appalachians. Intermediate plants are occasionally encountered. A hybrid between <i></i>subsp.<i> wherryi</i> and <i>S. virginica</i> was reported by J. A. Steyermark (1963), and a hybrid swarm between <i></i>subsp.<i> pensylvanica</i> and <i>S. virginica</i> by R. S. Mitchell and L. J. Uttal (1969).</p>
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==Key==
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{| class="wikitable fna-keytable"
|-id=key-0-1
|1
|Calyces with long, straight, nonglandular pubescence
|[[Silene caroliniana subsp. wherryi|Silene caroliniana subsp. wherryi]]
|-id=key-0-1
|1
|Calyces glandular-pubescent
|[[#key-0-2| > 2]]
|-id=key-0-2
|2
|Basal leaf blades pubescent on both surfaces, typically obovate to oblanceolate, apex obtuse; petioles broadly winged
|[[Silene caroliniana subsp. caroliniana|Silene caroliniana subsp. caroliniana]]
|-id=key-0-2
|2
|Basal leaf blades ± glabrous on both surfaces (margins and veins pubescent abaxially), narrowly oblanceolate, apex acute; petioles with very narrow wing
|[[Silene caroliniana subsp. pensylvanica|Silene caroliniana subsp. pensylvanica]]
|}
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name=Silene caroliniana
|authority=Walter
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Caryophyllaceae
|distribution=Ala.;Conn.;D.C.;Del.;Ga.;Kans.;Ky.;Mass.;Md.;Mo.;N.C.;N.H.;N.J.;N.Y.;Ohio;Pa.;R.I.;S.C.;Tenn.;Va.;W.Va.
|reference=None
|publication title=Fl. Carol.,
|publication year=1788
|special status=Illustrated;Endemic
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|subfamily=Caryophyllaceae subfam. Caryophylloideae
|genus=Silene
|species=Silene caroliniana
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