Silene taimyrensis

Silene taimyrensis, or Taimyr catchfly,[2] is a herbaceous perennial in the family Caryophyllaceae. It is native to the Yukon and British Columbia in Canada and to Alaska.[3] It is found to an elevation of a 1500 meters, growing in exposed subalpine to alpine locations with poor, rocky to sandy soils.[3] It grows to a height of 40 cm in its native habitat and to twice that height as a garden plant; it has small, white to light pink flowers that grow in terminal clusters.[3] S. taimyrensis is known in the fossil record from the Late Pleistocene.[4]

Silene taimyrensis
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Order: Caryophyllales
Family: Caryophyllaceae
Genus: Silene
Species:
S. taimyrensis
Binomial name
Silene taimyrensis
(Tolm.) Bocquet
Synonyms[1]
  • Gastrolychnis ostenfeldii
    (A.E.Porsild) Petrovsky
  • Gastrolychnis taimyrensis
    (Tolm.) Czerep.
  • Gastrolychnis triflora subsp. dawsonii
    (B.L.Rob.) Á.Löve & D.Löve
  • Lychnis dawsonii
    (B.L.Rob.) J.P.Anderson
  • Lychnis taimyrensis
    ( Tolm. ) Polunin
  • Lychnis triflora var. dawsonii
    B.L.Rob.
  • Melandrium ostenfeldii
    A.E.Porsild
  • Melandrium taimyrense
    Tolm.

References
  1. Hong Qian and Karel Klinka (1998). Plants of British Columbia: Scientific and Common Names of Vascular Plants, Bryophytes, and Lichens. University of British Columbia Press. ISBN 978-0-7748-0652-7.
  2. "Silene taimyrensis". Natural Resources Conservation Service PLANTS Database. USDA. Retrieved 15 November 2015.
  3. William J. Cody (2000). Flora of the Yukon Territory. NRC Press (Canada).
  4. Grant D. Zazula; et al. (2006). "Vegetation buried under Dawson tephra (25,300 14 C years BP) and locally diverse late Pleistocene paleoenvironments of Goldbottom Creek, Yukon, Canada". Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology. 242: 253–286. doi:10.1016/j.palaeo.2006.06.005.


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