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|hierarchy=Caryophyllaceae;Caryophyllaceae subfam. Caryophylloideae;Silene;Silene viscaria;Silene viscaria subsp. viscaria
|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 viscaria]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>subspecies</small>[[Silene viscaria subsp. viscaria]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 5
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|treatment_page=page 213
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>perennial; taproot stout, branched; caudex compact, multicapitate. <b>Stems</b> erect, simple proximal to inflorescence, 30–90 cm, glabrous, viscid, especially at nodes. <b>Leaves</b>: basal numerous, tufted, petiolate, blade oblanceolate to linear-oblanceolate, 4–15 cm × 2–10 mm (including petiole), apex acute, glabrous, ciliate at base; cauline in 2–4 pairs, connate proximally, sessile. reduced distally, blade linear-lanceolate, 2–10 cm × 2–8 mm, apex acute, glabrous, ciliate at base. <b>Inflorescences</b> paniculate, consisting of short, interrupted cymes, narrow, bracteate, bracteolate; cyme 3–10-flowered, proximal ones pedunculate; peduncle to 3 cm; bracts leaflike, to 3 cm; bracteoles broadly lanceolate, 3–10 mm, margins membranous, apex acuminate. <b>Pedicels</b> shorter than calyx, glabrous but viscid. <b>Flowers</b> 14–22 mm diam.; calyx purple, obscurely veined, narrowly campanulate in flower, 6–10 × 3–4 mm, clavate in fruit, 10–15 × ca. 5 mm, papery, puberulent, lobes ovate, ca. 1.5 cm, margins narrow, membranous, apex obtuse; corolla purple or dark pink (rarely white), ca. 11/2–2 times calyx, clawed, claw equaling calyx, limb spreading, obovate, entire or slightly notched, 5–9 mm, appendages 2, oblong, 3 mm; stamens shortly exserted; stigmas 5, shortly exserted. <b>Capsules</b> ovoid, equaling calyx, opening by 5 teeth; carpophore 3–5 mm. <b>Seeds</b> dark brown, reniform, 0.3–0.5 mm, finely tuberculate. <b>2n</b> = 24 (Europe).</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering early summer.
|habitat=Roadsides, waste ground, fields
|elevation=0-500 m
|distribution=Conn.;Maine;Mass.;N.H.;N.Y.;Ohio;Europe.
|discussion=<p>Subspecies viscaria is an attractive garden plant similar to <i>S. suecica</i> but somewhat larger and sturdier with viscid pedicels. It occasionally escapes but does not persist.</p>
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name=Silene viscaria subsp. viscaria
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|family=Caryophyllaceae
|phenology=Flowering early summer.
|habitat=Roadsides, waste ground, fields
|elevation=0-500 m
|distribution=Conn.;Maine;Mass.;N.H.;N.Y.;Ohio;Europe.
|introduced=true
|reference=None
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|subfamily=Caryophyllaceae subfam. Caryophylloideae
|genus=Silene
|species=Silene viscaria
|subspecies=Silene viscaria subsp. viscaria
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