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|accepted_name=Silene spaldingii
|accepted_authority=S. Watson
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts
|place=10: 344. 1875
|year=1875
}}
|common_names=Spalding’s catchfly or campion
|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=E
|label=Endemic
}}{{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=C
|label=Conservation concern
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|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Caryophyllaceae;Caryophyllaceae subfam. Caryophylloideae;Silene;Silene spaldingii
|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 spaldingii]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 5
|mention_page=page 170
|treatment_page=page 207
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>perennial, viscid; taproot stout; caudex branched, woody, producing several to many shoots. <b>Stems</b> erect, branched, leafy, 20–60 cm, villose-tomentose, viscid-glandular. <b>Leaves</b> 2 per node, connate proximally, sessile, largest in mid stem; blade lanceolate, 3–7 cm × 5–15 mm, apex acute, glandular-tomentose throughout. <b>Inflorescences</b> open, leafy cymes, bracteate, viscid and glandular-tomentose, branches ascending, mostly floriferous, flowers terminal and at distal nodes; bracts leaflike, 5–30 mm. <b>Pedicels</b> shorter than calyx. <b>Flowers</b>: calyx obscurely 10-veined, tubular-campanulate, 10–15 × 4–5 mm in flower, becoming clavate and 15–20 × 6–8 mm in fruit, narrowed toward base around carpophore, herbaceous, viscid-pubescent, veins more distinct at base, without conspicuous pale commissures, lobes narrowly lanceolate, 3–6 mm, margins very narrow, membranous, apex blunt; corolla greenish white, clawed, claw equaling calyx, widened distally, limb emarginate, 2 × 4 mm, appendages 4(–6), ca. 0.5 mm; stamens equaling petals; styles 3, equaling petals. <b>Capsules</b> ellipsoid, slightly longer than calyx, opening by 6 teeth; carpophore 1.5–2.5 mm. <b>Seeds</b> yellowish brown, winged, reniform, ca. 2 mm, rugose; wing broad, wrinkled. <b>2n</b> = 48.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering summer.
|habitat=Mixed prairie and ponderosa pine forests in swales and on dry hillsides
|elevation=800-1100 m
|distribution=B.C.;Idaho;Mont.;Oreg.;Wash.
|discussion=<p>Of conservation concern.</p>
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name=Silene spaldingii
|authority=S. Watson
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Caryophyllaceae
|phenology=Flowering summer.
|habitat=Mixed prairie and ponderosa pine forests in swales and on dry hillsides
|elevation=800-1100 m
|distribution=B.C.;Idaho;Mont.;Oreg.;Wash.
|reference=None
|publication title=Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts
|publication year=1875
|special status=Endemic;Conservation concern
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|subfamily=Caryophyllaceae subfam. Caryophylloideae
|genus=Silene
|species=Silene spaldingii
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