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{{Treatment/ID
|accepted_name=Silene coronaria
|accepted_authority=(Linnaeus) Clairville
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Man. Herbor. Suisse,
|place=145. 1811
|year=1811
}}
|common_names=Rose campion;dusty-miller;mullein pink;lychnide coronaire
|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Basionym
|name=Agrostemma coronaria
|authority=Linnaeus
|publication_title=Sp. Pl.
|publication_place=1: 436. 1753
}}
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Lychnis coronaria
|authority=(Linnaeus) Murray
}}
|hierarchy=Caryophyllaceae;Caryophyllaceae subfam. Caryophylloideae;Silene;Silene coronaria
|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 coronaria]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 5
|mention_page=page 168
|treatment_page=page 180
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>perennial, grayish white-tomentose, eglandular; taproot slender to stout; caudex branched, slightly woody. <b>Stems</b> several, erect, branched distally, stout, 40–100 cm. <b>Leaves</b>: basal blade oblanceolate, spatulate, 5–10 cm × 10–25(–30) mm, margins entire, apex acute, apiculate, with tuft of white hairs; cauline in 5–10 pairs, sessile, reduced distally, blade with both surfaces obscured by dense, silky, grayish-white tomentum. <b>Inflorescences</b> with 1–several dichotomies, several-flowered, open, bracteate; branches ascending, elongate; bracts leaflike, 10–20 mm. <b>Pedicels</b> straight, stout, to 10 cm. <b>Flowers</b> ca. 35 mm; calyx thickly 10-veined, obovate, ca. 15 × 10 mm in fruit, margins dentate with 5 narrowly lanceolate lobes ca. 1/4 length of tube, tomentose; corolla rich magenta-pink, sometimes white, clawed, claw equaling calyx, limb spreading horizontally, broadly obovate, shallowly 2-lobed, appendages 2, narrow, 2–4 mm; stamens equaling claw; stigmas 5, equaling claw. <b>Capsules</b> equaling to tightly enclosed within calyx, obovate-elliptic, ca. 14 mm, opening by 5 spreading, lanceolate teeth; carpophore ca. 2 mm. <b>Seeds</b> grayish brown, reniform-rotund, plump, 1–1.5 mm, coarsely verrucate. <b>2n</b> = 24.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering summer.
|habitat=Roadsides, fields, waste or rocky places
|elevation=0-300 m
|distribution=B.C.;N.B.;N.S.;Ont.;Que.;Ala.;Ark.;Calif.;Conn.;Idaho;Ill.;Ind.;La.;Md.;Mass.;Mich.;Mo.;N.H.;N.J.;N.Y.;N.C.;Ohio;Oreg.;Pa.;S.C.;Utah;Vt.;Va.;Wash.;W.Va.;Wis.;Europe.
|discussion=<p><i>Silene coronaria</i> is commonly cultivated and occasionally escapes.</p>
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Silene coronaria
|author=
|authority=(Linnaeus) Clairville
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=Lychnis coronaria
|basionyms=Agrostemma coronaria
|family=Caryophyllaceae
|phenology=Flowering summer.
|habitat=Roadsides, fields, waste or rocky places
|elevation=0-300 m
|distribution=B.C.;N.B.;N.S.;Ont.;Que.;Ala.;Ark.;Calif.;Conn.;Idaho;Ill.;Ind.;La.;Md.;Mass.;Mich.;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=Man. Herbor. Suisse,
|publication year=1811
|special status=
|source xml=https://jpend@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation.git/src/f6b125a955440c0872999024f038d74684f65921/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V5/V5_360.xml
|subfamily=Caryophyllaceae subfam. Caryophylloideae
|genus=Silene
|species=Silene coronaria
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