Silene taimyrensis
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Order: | Caryophyllales |
| Family: | Caryophyllaceae |
| Genus: | Silene |
| Species: | S. taimyrensis
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| Binomial name | |
| Silene taimyrensis (Tolm.) Bocquet
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Silene taimyrensis, or Taimyr catchfly,[2] is a herbaceous perennial in the family Caryophyllaceae.
Description and Habitat
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]
References
- ^ 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.
- ^ NRCS. "Silene taimyrensis". PLANTS Database. United States Department of Agriculture (USDA). Retrieved 15 November 2015.
- ^ a b c William J. Cody (2000). Flora of the Yukon Territory. NRC Press (Canada).
- ^ 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 (3–4): 253–286. Bibcode:2006PPP...242..253Z. doi:10.1016/j.palaeo.2006.06.005.