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|accepted_name=Silene conoidea
|accepted_authority=Linnaeus
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Sp. Pl.
|place=1: 418. 1753
|year=1753
}}
|common_names=Large sand catchfly
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Caryophyllaceae;Caryophyllaceae subfam. Caryophylloideae;Silene;Silene conoidea
|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 conoidea]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 5
|mention_page=page 169, 179
|treatment_page=page 180
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>annual; taproot slender. <b>Stems</b> erect, simple or with ascending branches, (20–)40–100 cm, coarsely puberulent, stipitate-glandular, viscid distally. <b>Leaves</b>: mid and proximal stem pairs connate, blade 1–several-veined, oblanceolate to narrowly lanceolate, (3–)5–12 cm × (3–)8–15 mm, apex acute, veins parallel; basal leaf blades oblanceolate and ± obtuse, sparsely to moderately puberulent on both surfaces, rarely subglabrous. <b>Inflorescences</b> several–many-flowered, open, bracteate; bracts resembling leaves but smaller. <b>Pedicels</b> ascending, straight, equaling or longer than calyx, densely stipitate-glandular, viscid. <b>Flowers</b>: calyx prominently 25–30-veined, lobed to 1/3 its length but splitting further in fruit, umbilicate, narrowly conic in flower, conic-ovoid and inflated in fruit, 20–30 × to 15 mm, margins dentate, puberulent and stipitate-glandular, lobes 5, lanceolate, narrow, acuminate, veins parallel; corolla deep pink, clawed, claw equaling or longer than calyx, limb slightly lobed or unlobed, broadly obovate, spatulate, 8–12 mm, appendages 2–4 mm, lobed or dentate; stamens equaling claw; stigmas 3, equaling claw. <b>Capsules</b> flask-shaped, 15–20 mm, opening by 6 recurved, lanceolate teeth; carpophore to 2 mm. <b>Seeds</b> brown, reniform, 1.2–1.8 mm broad, tuberculate. <b>2n</b> = 20, 24 (Europe, Asia).</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering early summer.
|habitat=Dry waste places, roadsides, arable land
|elevation=0-1000 m
|distribution=Alta.;B.C.;Sask.;Calif.;Idaho;Mo.;Mont.;Oreg.;Tex.;Wash.;Eurasia.
|discussion=<p>Similar to <i>Silene conica</i> but larger in all its parts, <i>S. conoidea</i> is a rare adventive weed with showy flowers and inflated fruiting calyces.</p>
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Silene conoidea
|author=
|authority=Linnaeus
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Caryophyllaceae
|phenology=Flowering early summer.
|habitat=Dry waste places, roadsides, arable land
|elevation=0-1000 m
|distribution=Alta.;B.C.;Sask.;Calif.;Idaho;Mo.;Mont.;Oreg.;Tex.;Wash.;Eurasia.
|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_359.xml
|subfamily=Caryophyllaceae subfam. Caryophylloideae
|genus=Silene
|species=Silene conoidea
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