Silene pendula, called the nodding catchfly or drooping catchfly, is a species of flowering plant in the genus Silene, native to Italy, Greece, and Turkey, and introduced to scattered locations in North America, South America, Africa, Europe and Asia.[2] A number of cultivars are available.[3] A 2020 study showed with certainty that, despite their morphological similarities, Silene cisplatensis is not synonymous with Silene pendula.[4]
| Silene pendula | |
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| 'Compacta' cultivar | |
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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. pendula
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| Silene pendula | |
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References
edit- ^ Sp. Pl.: 418 (1753)
- ^ a b "Silene pendula L." Plants of the World Online. Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. 2017. Retrieved 13 February 2021.
- ^ "Silene pendula nodding catchfly". The Royal Horticultural Society. Retrieved 13 February 2021.
Other common names; ... Italian catchfly, pendulous catchfly
- ^ Jafari, Farzaneh; Zarre, Shahin; Gholipour, Abbas; Eggens, Frida; Rabeler, Richard K.; Oxelman, Bengt (2020). "A new taxonomic backbone for the infrageneric classification of the species-rich genus Silene (Caryophyllaceae)". Taxon. 69 (2): 337–368. doi:10.1002/tax.12230. hdl:2027.42/156144. S2CID 225737766.
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