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|accepted_name=Silene noctiflora
|accepted_authority=Linnaeus
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Sp. Pl.
|place=1: 419. 1753
|year=1753
}}
|common_names=Night-flowering catchfly;silène noctiflore
|basionyms=
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Melandrium noctiflorum
|authority=(Linnaeus) Fries
|rank=species
}}
|hierarchy=Caryophyllaceae;Caryophyllaceae subfam. Caryophylloideae;Silene;Silene noctiflora
|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 noctiflora]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 5
|mention_page=page 170
|treatment_page=page 194
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>annual, densely pubescent throughout, viscid-glandular, especially distally; taproot slender. <b>Stems</b> erect, simple proximal to inflorescence or with few basal branches, branched distally, to 75 cm. <b>Leaves</b> 2 per node, gradually reduced distally; basal blades oblanceolate, 6–12(–14) cm × 20–45 mm; cauline blades ascending, conspicuously veined, broadly elliptic to lanceolate, 1–11 cm × 3–40 mm, apex acute, shortly acuminate, densely pubescent on both surfaces. <b>Inflorescences</b> cymose, 3–15-flowered, bracteate; cyme open, flowers held on ascending branches; bracts leaflike, narrowly lanceolate, 1–5 cm, apex acuminate. <b>Pedicels</b> ascending, straight, 1/3–3 times longer than calyx. <b>Flowers</b> nocturnal, 20–25 mm diam.; calyx prominently 10-veined, ovate-elliptic, fusiform, narrowed to both ends and constricted around carpophore, 15–24(–40) × ca. 3 mm in flower, swelling to 10 mm diam. in fruit, thin and papery, margins dentate, with pale commissures; lobes erect, often recurved in fruit, linear-lanceolate, long, narrow, (3–)5–10(–15) mm, apex acuminate, short-pubescent, glandular, interspersed with long eglandular hairs, veins anastomosing; corolla white, often pink tinged, clawed, claw equaling calyx lobes, limb deeply 2-lobed, lobes usually narrow, appendages 0.5–1.5 mm broad, margins entire or erose; stamens shorter than petals; styles 3, shorter than petals. <b>Capsules</b> ovoid, constricted at mouth, equaling or slightly longer than calyx tube, opening by 6 recurved teeth; carpophore 1–3 mm. <b>Seeds</b> dark brown to black, with gray bloom, broadly reniform, 0.8–1 mm, strongly tuberculate. <b>2n</b> = 24.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering summer.
|habitat=Arable land, disturbed ground
|elevation=0-3000 m
|distribution=Alta.;B.C.;Man.;N.B.;Nfld. and Labr. (Nfld.);N.S.;Ont.;P.E.I.;Que.;Sask.;Yukon;Alaska;Ala.;Calif.;Colo.;Conn.;Del.;D.C.;Fla.;Idaho;Ill.;Ind.;Iowa;Ky.;La.;Maine;Mass.;Mich.;Minn.;Miss.;Mo.;Mont.;Nebr.;N.H.;N.J.;N.Mex.;N.Y.;N.C.;N.Dak.;Ohio;Oreg.;Pa.;R.I.;S.Dak.;Tenn.;Utah.;Vt.;Va.;Wash.;W.Va.;Wis.;Wyo.;Europe.
|discussion=<p><i>Silene noctiflora</i> is sometimes confused with <i>S. latifolia</i>, but they are very different species. <i>Silene noctiflora</i> differs in having perfect flowers with long, very narrow calyx teeth and an elliptic, fruiting calyx that is narrow at the mouth and constricted around the capsule base. It also has three styles and a capsule that dehisces by six teeth; <i>S. latifolia</i> has (four or) five styles and a capsule that dehisces by five bifid teeth. The flowers of <i>S. noctiflora</i>, as its name indicates, are nocturnal and moth-pollinated.</p>
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name=Silene noctiflora
|authority=Linnaeus
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=Melandrium noctiflorum
|basionyms=
|family=Caryophyllaceae
|phenology=Flowering summer.
|habitat=Arable land, disturbed ground
|elevation=0-3000 m
|distribution=Alta.;B.C.;Man.;N.B.;Nfld. and Labr. (Nfld.);N.S.;Ont.;P.E.I.;Que.;Sask.;Yukon;Alaska;Ala.;Calif.;Colo.;Conn.;Del.;D.C.;Fla.;Idaho;Ill.;Ind.;Iowa;Ky.;La.;Maine;Mass.;Mich.;Minn.;Miss.;Mo.;Mont.;Nebr.;N.H.;N.J.;N.Mex.;N.Y.;N.C.;N.Dak.;Ohio;Oreg.;Pa.;R.I.;S.Dak.;Tenn.;Utah.;Vt.;Va.;Wash.;W.Va.;Wis.;Wyo.;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/f50eec43f223ca0e34566be0b046453a0960e173/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V5/V5_395.xml
|subfamily=Caryophyllaceae subfam. Caryophylloideae
|genus=Silene
|species=Silene noctiflora
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