Silene taimyrensis

Silene taimyrensis
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
(unranked): Angiosperms
(unranked): Eudicots
(unranked): Core eudicots
Order: Caryophyllales
Family: Caryophyllaceae
Genus: Silene
Species: S. taimyrensis
Binomial name
Silene taimyrensis
(Tolm.) Bocquet
Synonyms

[1]

  • Gastrolychnis ostenfeldii
    (A.E.Porsild) Petrovsky
  • Gastrolychnis taimyrensis
    (Tolm.) Czerep.
  • Gastrolychnis triflora subsp. dawsonii
    (B.L.Rob.) Á.Löve & D.Löve
  • Lychnis dawsonii
    (B.L.Rob.) J.P.Anderson
  • Lychnis taimyrensis
    ( Tolm. ) Polunin
  • Lychnis triflora var. dawsonii
    B.L.Rob.
  • Melandrium ostenfeldii
    A.E.Porsild
  • Melandrium taimyrense
    Tolm.

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.[2] It is found to an elevation of a 1500 meters, growing in exposed subalpine to alpine locations with poor, rocky to sandy soils.[2] 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.[2] S. taimyrensis is known in the fossil record from the Late Pleistocene.[3]

References

  1. ^ Hong Qian and Karel Klinka (1998). Plants of British Columbia: Scientific and Common Names of Vascular Plants, Bryophytes, and Lichens. University of British Columbia Press. ISBN 978-0774806527. 
  2. ^ a b c William J. Cody (2000). Flora of the Yukon Territory. NRC Press (Canada). 
  3. ^ Grant D. Zazula et al. (2006). "Vegetation buried under Dawson tephra (25,300 14 C years BP) and locally diverse late Pleistocene paleoenvironments of Goldbottom Creek, Yukon, Canada". Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 242: 253–286.