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{{Treatment/ID
|accepted_name=Silene armeria
|accepted_authority=Linnaeus
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Sp. Pl.
|place=1: 420. 1753
|year=1753
}}
|common_names=Sweet-William catchfly;silène arméria
|basionyms=
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Atocion armeria
|authority=(Linnaeus) Rafinesque
}}
|hierarchy=Caryophyllaceae;Caryophyllaceae subfam. Caryophylloideae;Silene;Silene armeria
|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 armeria]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 5
|mention_page=page 169, 175
|treatment_page=page 174
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>annual, glabrous throughout, ± glaucous, sometimes glutnous in distal parts; taproot slender. <b>Stems</b> simple, branched in inflorescence, (10–)20–40(–70) cm. <b>Leaves</b>: basal withering before flowering, blade lanceolate-spatulate, 2–5 cm; cauline sessile to amplexicaulous, blade lanceolate to ovate or elliptic, 1–6 cm × 5–25 mm, apex acute. <b>Inflorescences</b> cymose, bracteate; cyme capitate or with flowers clustered at end of slender branches; bracts lanceolate-acicular, 2–10 mm. <b>Pedicels</b> 0.1–0.5 cm. <b>Flowers</b>: calyx usually purple tinged, 10-veined, elongate, clavate, lobed, constricted proximally into narrow tube, 13–17 × 2.5–4 mm, rather membranous; lobes ovate-triangular, ca. 1 mm, apex obtuse; petals pink (rarely white), unlobed, limb obovate, ca. 5 mm, base cuneate into claw 6–8 mm, auricles absent, appendages linear to lanceolate, 2–3 mm, apex acute; stamens slightly longer than petal claws; styles 3(–4), exserted. <b>Capsules</b> oblong, 7–10 mm, opening by 6 (or 8) spreading teeth; carpophore 7–8 mm, glabrous. <b>Seeds</b> dark brown, reniform-rotund, less than 1 mm diam., rugose. <b>2n</b> = 24 (Europe).</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering summer.
|habitat=Waste places, disturbed ground
|elevation=0-1200 m
|distribution=B.C.;N.B.;N.S.;Ont.;Que.;Calif.;Conn.;Del.;D.C.;Fla.;Ill.;Ind.;Ky.;Maine;Md.;Mass.;Mich.;Minn.;Mo.;N.H.;N.J.;N.Y.;N.C.;Ohio;Oreg.;Pa.;S.C.;Utah;Vt.;Va.;Wash.;W.Va.;Wis.;Europe.
|discussion=<p>The long-tubular, clavate calyx enclosing the unusually long carpophore helps to distinguish <i>Silene armeria</i>. It is an occasional and adventive garden escape.</p>
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name=Silene armeria
|author=
|authority=Linnaeus
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=Atocion armeria
|basionyms=
|family=Caryophyllaceae
|phenology=Flowering summer.
|habitat=Waste places, disturbed ground
|elevation=0-1200 m
|distribution=B.C.;N.B.;N.S.;Ont.;Que.;Calif.;Conn.;Del.;D.C.;Fla.;Ill.;Ind.;Ky.;Maine;Md.;Mass.;Mich.;Minn.;Mo.;N.H.;N.J.;N.Y.;N.C.;Ohio;Oreg.;Pa.;S.C.;Utah;Vt.;Va.;Wash.;W.Va.;Wis.;Europe.
|introduced=true
|reference=None
|publication title=Sp. Pl.
|publication year=1753
|special status=
|source xml=https://jpend@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation.git/src/f6b125a955440c0872999024f038d74684f65921/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V5/V5_345.xml
|subfamily=Caryophyllaceae subfam. Caryophylloideae
|genus=Silene
|species=Silene armeria
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