Silene rotundifolia
Silene seelyi
round-leaf catchfly
Seely's catchfly, Seely's catchfly or silene, Seely's silene
several, straggling to erect, freely branched, 2–7 cm, pilose and glandular, sparsely so proximally.
numerous, decumbent to ascending, branched, tufted, leafy, slender, 5–30 cm.
basal leaves withered at time of flowering, distal sessile, proximal petiolate, largest on mid to distal stem;
blade subrotund to broadly ovate-lanceolate, 3–10 cm × 20–70 mm, base cuneate into petiole, apex short-acuminate, sparsely short-pilose.
2 per node, sessile or nearly so, blade reticulate-veined, lanceolate to ovate-lanceolate, thin, 0.8–2 cm × 3–8 mm, broadest proximally, base rounded, apex acute.
cymose, open, few-flowered, leafy, bracteate;
bracts resembling distal leaves.
cymose, open, compound, leafy, single flowers borne terminally and in axils of distal leaves;
bracteoles, when present, 2.
1–3(–4) cm, viscid, with long septate-glandular hairs.
straight, slender, 1/2–3 times longer than calyx.
calyx indistinctly veined, tubular, broadened distally, constricted towards base around carpophore, ± umbilicate, 20–25 × 5–8 mm, herbaceous, glandular-pilose, lobes triangular, 3–4 mm, margins narrow, membranous, ciliate;
corolla scarlet, clawed, claw equaling calyx, limb deeply 2-lobed, 10–15 mm, lobes lanceolate, sometimes with 2 smaller lateral teeth, ciliate, appendages saccate, 1–1.5 mm, with clear area abaxially;
stamens shortly exserted;
styles 3, shortly exserted.
calyx green, obscurely 10-veined, narrowly campanulate, in fruit 6–9 × 3–4 mm, herbaceous, pubescent, veins without conspicuous pale commissures;
lobes triangular, 2–3 mm;
corolla dark red, sometimes white, clawed, claw slightly longer than calyx, limb deeply 2-lobed, 2–3 mm, appendages 2, very small;
stamens exserted;
styles 3, exserted.
narrowly ellipsoid, not distending calyx, included within it, opening by 6 teeth;
carpophore 6–8 mm.
ellipsoid, included in calyx, opening by 6 teeth;
carpophore ca. 1.5 mm.
gray, broadly reniform, plump, ca. 1 mm, shallowly papillate.
brown, not winged, broadly reniform, flattened, ca. 0.8 mm, reticulate.
= 48.
= 24.
Silene rotundifolia
Silene seelyi
Silene rotundifolia is clearly related to S. laciniata but is a well-marked species of the deciduous forest region.
(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
Of conservation concern.
Silene seelyi is confined to the Wenatchee Mountains. It closely related to S. menziesii, but is distinguished by its usually dark red flowers and broadly lanceolate leaves.
Silene seelyi is in the Center for Plant Conservation’s National Collection of Endangered Plants.
(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
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