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{{Treatment/ID
|accepted_name=Silene hitchguirei
|accepted_authority=Bocquet
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Candollea
|place=22: 29. 1967
|year=1967
}}
|common_names=Mountain campion
|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Basionym
|name=Lychnis montana
|authority=S. Watson
|rank=species
|publication_title=Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts
|publication_place=12: 247. 1877,
}}
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Lychnis apetala subsp. montana
|authority=(S. Watson) Maguire
|rank=subspecies
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Lychnis apetala var. montana
|authority=(S. Watson) C.L.Hitchcock
|rank=variety
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Silene uralensis subsp. montana
|authority=(S. Watson) McNeill
|rank=subspecies
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Silene wahlbergella subsp. montana
|authority=(S. Watson) Hultén
|rank=subspecies
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Wahlbergella montana
|authority=
|rank=species
}}
|hierarchy=Caryophyllaceae;Caryophyllaceae subfam. Caryophylloideae;Silene;Silene hitchguirei
|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 hitchguirei]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 5
|mention_page=page 168, 175, 188, 209
|treatment_page=page 186
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>perennial, with dense tuft of basal leaves; taproot stout. <b>Flowering</b> stems several, stiffly erect, 2–10(–12) cm, densely pubescent distally, hairs multicellular, with glandular tip; stem leaves in 1 or 2 pairs. <b>Leaves</b>: blade narrowly oblanceolate and long-spatulate, to 2.5 cm × 4 mm, somewhat fleshy, apex acute, ± glabrous except for ciliate margins. <b>Inflorescences</b> 1(–3) per flowering stem. <b>Flowers</b> erect; mature calyx veined, elliptic, not inflated or thin, 7–10(–12) mm, densely pubescent with purple-septate hairs, margins dentate with 1–1.5 mm lobes, apex acute, outwardly curved, veins not much- broadened distally, intermediate ones shorter than calyx, veins and calyx lobes dark purple; petals white or pink, to 11/4 times calyx, claw narrow, 10–12 mm, limb not differentiated from claw, obovate, emarginate, ca. 3 mm; stamens equaling calyx; styles 5, equaling calyx. <b>Capsules</b> equaling calyx, opening by 5 teeth, tardily splitting into 10, triangular, outwardly curved. <b>Seeds</b> brown, reniform to angular, (0.5–)0.7–1(–1.3) mm diam., wrinkled, wing narrow, less than 1/4 diam. of seed. <b>2n</b> = 24.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering summer.
|habitat=Alpine tundra
|elevation=3000-4300 m
|distribution=Alta.;Colo.;Mont.;Utah;Wyo.
|discussion=<p><i>Silene hitchguirei</i> is similar to <i>S. suksdorfii</i>, except that the latter species has larger seeds, an urceolate fruiting calyx with a contracted base, an inflorescence that is sometimes branched with up to three flowers, and short, erect stems that have three or four pairs of leaves. It is probably closely related to <i>S. involucrata </i>subsp.<i> tenella</i> and <i>S. ostenfeldii</i> but differs in its small size, its usually solitary flowers, and short petals. The wing on its small seeds is narrower than that of <i>S. involucrata </i>subsp.<i> tenella</i>, whereas in <i>S. ostenfeldii</i> the wing is completely absent.</p>
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Silene hitchguirei
|authority=Bocquet
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=Lychnis apetala subsp. montana;Lychnis apetala var. montana;Silene uralensis subsp. montana;Silene wahlbergella subsp. montana;Wahlbergella montana
|basionyms=Lychnis montana
|family=Caryophyllaceae
|phenology=Flowering summer.
|habitat=Alpine tundra
|elevation=3000-4300 m
|distribution=Alta.;Colo.;Mont.;Utah;Wyo.
|reference=None
|publication title=Candollea
|publication year=1967
|special status=
|source xml=https://jpend@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation.git/src/f50eec43f223ca0e34566be0b046453a0960e173/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V5/V5_376.xml
|subfamily=Caryophyllaceae subfam. Caryophylloideae
|genus=Silene
|species=Silene hitchguirei
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