Silene taimyrensis

Silene taimyrensis
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
(unranked):	Angiosperms
(unranked):	Eudicots
(unranked):	Core 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.

Silene taimyrensis, or Taimyr catchfly,^[2] is a herbaceous perennial in the Caryophyllaceae, or pink family. 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

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.