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{{Treatment/ID
|accepted_name=Silene gallica
|accepted_authority=Linnaeus
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Sp. Pl.
|place=1: 417. 1753
|year=1753
}}
|common_names=Small-flowered catchfly;silène de France
|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=W
|label=Weedy
}}{{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=I
|label=Introduced
}}
|basionyms=
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Silene anglica
|authority=Linnaeus
|rank=species
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Silene quinquevulnera
|authority=Linnaeus
|rank=species
}}
|hierarchy=Caryophyllaceae;Caryophyllaceae subfam. Caryophylloideae;Silene;Silene gallica
|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 gallica]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 5
|mention_page=page 170
|treatment_page=page 185
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>annual; taproot slender. <b>Stems</b> erect, branched, rarely simple, 15–45 cm, with long, often crinkled hairs mixed with short pubescence, viscid-glandular distally. <b>Leaves</b> 2 per node, blade with coarse, ascending, scabrous pubescence on both surfaces; basal few, withering, blade oblanceolate to spatulate-petiolate, 0.5–5 cm × 3–15 mm; cauline blades oblanceolate to lanceolate, 1–7 cm × 1–15 mm, apex obtuse or shortly acuminate to acute. <b>Inflorescences</b> open, with racemose branches, internodes and bracts usually ca. equaling fruiting calyx, 1–5 mm, longer proximally. <b>Flowers</b> 5–8 mm diam.; calyx prominently 10-veined, narrowly tubular-ovoid in flower, ovoid in fruit, constricted at mouth, 7–10 × 3–5 mm, membranous between veins, margins dentate, hispid, hairs ca. 2 mm, veins parallel, lobes lanceolate, 2–2.5 mm, apex greenish purple, acute; petals white or pink, often with dark spot or dark pink throughout, clawed, claw equaling calyx, limb elliptic to obovate, lobed or unlobed, to 6 mm, appendages 2, oblong to narrowly lanceolate, 1–1.5 mm; stamens equaling or shorter than calyx; stigmas 3, included in calyx. <b>Capsules</b> equaling calyx, opening with 6 recurved, narrowly triangular teeth; carpophore shorter than 1 mm, pubescent. <b>Seeds</b> dark reddish brown, reniform, angular with concave, radially ridged faces, broad outer edge transversely ridged and verrucose, ca. 0.5 mm broad. <b>2n</b> = 24.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering spring–early summer.
|habitat=Dry, open places, sandy and gravelly ground, roadsides, waste land
|elevation=0-2000 m
|distribution=B.C.;N.B.;N.S.;Ont.;P.E.I.;Ala.;Alaska;Ariz.;Calif.;Fla.;Idaho;La.;Maine;Mass.;Miss.;Mo.;N.H.;N.Y.;N.C.;Oreg.;Pa.;R.I.;S.C.;Tex.;Wash.;Europe;introduced worldwide.
|introduced=true
|tables=
|references=
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Silene gallica
|authority=Linnaeus
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=Silene anglica;Silene quinquevulnera
|basionyms=
|family=Caryophyllaceae
|phenology=Flowering spring–early summer.
|habitat=Dry, open places, sandy and gravelly ground, roadsides, waste land
|elevation=0-2000 m
|distribution=B.C.;N.B.;N.S.;Ont.;P.E.I.;Ala.;Alaska;Ariz.;Calif.;Fla.;Idaho;La.;Maine;Mass.;Miss.;Mo.;N.H.;N.Y.;N.C.;Oreg.;Pa.;R.I.;S.C.;Tex.;Wash.;Europe;introduced worldwide.
|introduced=true
|reference=None
|publication title=Sp. Pl.
|publication year=1753
|special status=Weedy;Introduced
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|subfamily=Caryophyllaceae subfam. Caryophylloideae
|genus=Silene
|species=Silene gallica
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