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{{Treatment/ID
|accepted_name=Silene suecica
|accepted_authority=(Loddiges) Greuter & Burdet
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Willdenowia
|place=12: 190. 1982
|year=1982
}}
|common_names=Alpine pink;lychnide alpine
|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Basionym
|name=Lychnis suecica
|authority=Loddiges
|publication_title=Bot. Cab.
|publication_place=9: plate 881. 1824
}} {{Treatment/ID/Basionym
|name=Lychnis alpina
|authority=Linnaeus
|publication_title=
|publication_place=1753
}}
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Steris alpina
|authority=(Linnaeus) M. Sourkova
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Viscaria alpina
|authority=(Linnaeus) G. Don
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Viscaria alpina subsp. americana
|authority=(Fernald) Böcher
}}
|hierarchy=Caryophyllaceae;Caryophyllaceae subfam. Caryophylloideae;Silene;Silene suecica
|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 suecica]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 5
|mention_page=page 168, 213
|treatment_page=page 208
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>perennial, cespitose, glabrous to sparsely pubescent, nonviscid; taproot stout. <b>Stems</b> erect, simple, 5–35 cm, glabrous or very sparsely short-pubescent. <b>Leaves</b>: basal crowded, blade narrowly oblanceolate, 1–5 cm × 1–5 mm, tapered into broad ciliate base, apex acute; cauline in 2–5 pairs, sessile, connate proximally, blade narrowly lanceolate, 1–4 cm × 2–7 mm, margins ciliate, apex acute. <b>Inflorescences</b> cymose, congested, 6–30-flowered, bracteate, pedunculate, often with smaller pedunculate branches in distal nodes; bracts purple, lanceolate, 2–20 mm; peduncle glabrous to sparsely puberulent. <b>Pedicels</b> glabrous to sparsely puberulent. <b>Flowers</b> sessile or short-petiolate, 5–10 mm diam.; calyx purple, faintly 10-veined, campanulate, 4–6 × 3–5 mm, base attenuate into pedicel, lobes ovate, 1–1.5 mm, margins broad, membranous, apex obtuse; corolla bright pink (rarely white), limb spreading, 2-lobed to middle, 3.5–7 mm, cuneate into claw, ca. 11/4–11/2 times calyx, appendages absent; stamens ca. equaling petals; stigmas 5, ca. equaling petals. <b>Capsules</b> ovoid, equaling to slightly longer than calyx, opening by 5 recurved teeth; carpophore ca. 1 mm. <b>Seeds</b> dark brown, reniform, 0.5–0.8 mm, verrucate with crescent-shaped pattern. <b>2n</b> = 24.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering summer.
|habitat=Tundra, rocky barrens, gulleys and river outwashes, grassy slopes, sea cliffs
|elevation=0-1100 m
|distribution=Greenland;Nfld. and Labr.;Nunavut;Que.;Europe (Iceland).
|discussion=<p>North American material of this arctic-alpine species has been regarded as distinct at the varietal and subspecific levels (M. L. Fernald 1940b; T. W. Böcher 1963) because it tends to be larger. However, the distinction is arbitrary, and some European material is as large as that from North America. A recent electrophoretic study (K. B. Haraldsen and J. Wesenberg 1993) of allozymes in populations from both continents provides no support for subdivision of this species.</p>
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name=Silene suecica
|author=
|authority=(Loddiges) Greuter & Burdet
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=Steris alpina;Viscaria alpina;Viscaria alpina subsp. americana
|basionyms=Lychnis suecica;Lychnis alpina
|family=Caryophyllaceae
|phenology=Flowering summer.
|habitat=Tundra, rocky barrens, gulleys and river outwashes, grassy slopes, sea cliffs
|elevation=0-1100 m
|distribution=Greenland;Nfld. and Labr.;Nunavut;Que.;Europe (Iceland).
|reference=None
|publication title=Willdenowia
|publication year=1982
|special status=
|source xml=https://jpend@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation.git/src/f6b125a955440c0872999024f038d74684f65921/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V5/V5_425.xml
|subfamily=Caryophyllaceae subfam. Caryophylloideae
|genus=Silene
|species=Silene suecica
}}<!--

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