Plant Name
Scientific Name: Silene scouleri
Common Names: Simple Campion, Simple Catchfly, Scouler's Catchfly, Scouler Catchfly, Scouler's Campion, Bluff Pink
Plant Characteristics
Duration: Perennial
Growth Habit: Herb/Forb
Arizona Native Status: Native
Habitat: Mountain. This wildflower grows in moist mountain meadows and forests.
Flower Color: Pink, Greenish or pinkish white
Flowering Season: Summer, Early fall
Height: Up to 32 inches (80 cm) tall
Description: The flowers have 5 deeply forked petals, 2 paler, petal-like appendages at the base of each petal, and a sticky, glandular-hairy, green-striped or purple-striped, 10-veined calyx composed of fused sepals. The flowers are followed by elliptical or egg-shaped seed capsules that are the same length as the calyx or a bit longer. The leaves are green, opposite, covered with short, fine, flattened hairs, and broadly to narrowly lance-shaped or sometimes linear in shape. The stems are green, hairy, leafy, and erect to leaning. The glandular hairy foliage is sticky and can trap small insects.
Classification
Kingdom: Plantae – Plants
Subkingdom: Tracheobionta – Vascular plants
Superdivision: Spermatophyta – Seed plants
Division: Magnoliophyta – Flowering plants
Class: Magnoliopsida – Dicotyledons
Subclass: Caryophyllidae
Order: Caryophyllales
Family: Caryophyllaceae – Pink family
Genus: Silene L. – catchfly
Species: Silene scouleri Hook. – simple campion
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