Silene maritima
| Sea Campion (Silene uniflora) | |
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| Sea Campion (Silene uniflora) in Iceland | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| (unranked): | Angiosperms |
| (unranked): | Eudicots |
| (unranked): | Core eudicots |
| Order: | Caryophyllales |
| Family: | Caryophyllaceae |
| Genus: | Silene |
| Species: | S. uniflora |
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Silene uniflora Roth |
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| Synonyms | |
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Silene maritima With. |
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Silene maritima With.
Silene vulgaris ssp. maritima (With.) Á. Löve & D. Löve
Silene uniflora is a species of flowering plant in the pink family Caryophyllaceae known by the common name sea campion.
Silene uniflora is a herbaceous perennial plant, similar in appearance to the bladder campion (Silene vulgaris) but with flowers generally solitary. It is generally prostrate, mat-forming. The leaves are linear, grey-green glabrous and glaucous in opposite and decussate pairs, the flowers white with five deeply notched petals, the 5 sepals fused and inflated to form a bladder.
Silene uniflora is a maritime species, almost confined to Iceland and the Atlantic and Baltic sea coasts of the Azores, Cape Verde islands western Europe. In Britain it also occurs rarely in the mountains.
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