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|accepted_name=Silene virginica
|accepted_authority=Linnaeus
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Sp. Pl.
|place=1: 419. 1753
|year=1753
}}
|common_names=Fire pink
|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=E
|label=Endemic
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|basionyms=
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Melandrium virginicum
|authority=(Linnaeus) A. Braun
|rank=species
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Silene catesbaei
|authority=Walter
|rank=species
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Silene coccinea
|authority=Moench
|rank=species
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Silene virginica var. hallensis
|authority=Pickens & M. C. W. Pickens
|rank=variety
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Silene virginica var. robusta
|authority=Strausbaugh & Core
|rank=variety
}}
|hierarchy=Caryophyllaceae;Caryophyllaceae subfam. Caryophylloideae;Silene;Silene virginica
|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 virginica]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 5
|mention_page=page 169, 178, 208
|treatment_page=page 212
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>perennial; taproot slender; caudex decumbent, branched, producing tufts of leaves and erect flowering shoots. <b>Stems</b> simple proximal to inflorescence, 20–80 cm, glandular-pubescent, often subglabrous near base. <b>Leaves</b>: basal numerous, tufted, petiolate, petiole ciliate, blade oblanceolate, 3–10 cm × 8–18 mm, base spatulate, apex acute to obtuse, glabrous on both surfaces, rarely puberulent; cauline in 2–4 pairs, broadly petiolate to sessile, reduced distally, blade oblanceolate to narrowly elliptic or lanceolate, 1–10(–30) cm × 4–16(–30) mm, margins ciliate, apex acute, shortly acuminate, glabrous. <b>Inflorescences</b> open, with ascending, often elongate branches, (3–)7–11(–20)-flowered, bracteate, glandular-pubescent, often densely so, viscid; bracts leaflike, lanceolate, 4–40 mm. <b>Pedicels</b> erect in flower, sharply deflexed at base in fruit, 1/2–1 times length of calyx. <b>Flowers</b>: calyx green to purple, 10-veined, tubular to narrowly obconic in flower, 16–22 × 5–6 mm, clavate and swelling to 7–12 mm in fruit, glandular-pubescent, lobes lanceolate to oblong, 3–4 mm, margins usually narrow, membranous, apex acute or obtuse; corolla scarlet, 2 times longer than calyx, clawed, claw ciliate, gradually widening into limb, longer than calyx, limb obtriangular to oblong, deeply 2-lobed with 2 small lateral teeth, 10–14 mm, glabrous or nearly so, appendages 2, tubular, 3 mm; stamens exserted, shorter than petals; styles 3(–4), equaling stamens. <b>Capsules</b> ovoid, equaling calyx, opening by 3 (or 4) teeth that sometimes split into 6 (or 8); carpophore 2–3(–4) mm. <b>Seeds</b> ash gray, reniform, 1.5 mm, with large inflated papillae. <b>2n</b> = 48.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering spring.
|habitat=Deciduous woodlands, bluffs, moist wooded slopes
|elevation=200-1300 m
|distribution=Ala.;Ark.;Del.;Ga.;Ill.;Ind.;Iowa;Kans.;Ky.;La.;Mich.;Miss.;Mo.;N.Y.;N.C.;Ohio;Okla.;Pa.;S.C.;Tenn.;Va.;W.Va.
|discussion=<p><i>Silene virginica</i> is related to the scarlet-flowered species from the southwest, <i>S. laciniata</i> and <i>S. subciliata</i>. It makes a beautiful garden plant in semishaded locations. J. A. Steyermark (1963) recorded the occurrence of a hybrid between <i>S. virginica</i> and <i>S. caroliniana </i>subsp.<i> wherryi</i> in Shannon County, Missouri. Reports of the occurrence of <i>S. virginica</i> in Ontario are based on a collection (CAN, K) made in 1873 from “islands in the Detroit River” in “Canada West.”</p>
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Silene virginica
|authority=Linnaeus
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=Melandrium virginicum;Silene catesbaei;Silene coccinea;Silene virginica var. hallensis;Silene virginica var. robusta
|basionyms=
|family=Caryophyllaceae
|phenology=Flowering spring.
|habitat=Deciduous woodlands, bluffs, moist wooded slopes
|elevation=200-1300 m
|distribution=Ala.;Ark.;Del.;Ga.;Ill.;Ind.;Iowa;Kans.;Ky.;La.;Mich.;Miss.;Mo.;N.Y.;N.C.;Ohio;Okla.;Pa.;S.C.;Tenn.;Va.;W.Va.
|reference=None
|publication title=Sp. Pl.
|publication year=1753
|special status=Endemic
|source xml=https://bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation/src/2e0870ddd59836b60bcf96646a41e87ea5a5943a/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V5/V5_433.xml
|subfamily=Caryophyllaceae subfam. Caryophylloideae
|genus=Silene
|species=Silene virginica
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