Klamath Mountain Catchfly (Silene salmonacea)
Description
Silene salmonacea-is a rare, newly described species of flowering plant in the-pink family-known by the common names-Klamath Mountain catchfly-and-salmon-flowered catchfly. It is known only from-Trinity County, California, where it grows in the forests of the southern-Klamath Mountains.-It is a member of the-serpentine soils-flora. It is a small perennial herb growing just a few centimeters tall. The spoon-shaped leaves are up to 3.5 centimeters long. The herbage is gray-green and lightly woolly in texture. Each flower has a tubular calyx of fused-sepals-lined with ten veins. There are five-salmon pink-petals, each with four lobes at the tip.
Taxonomic tree
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Domain: Eukarya
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Kingdom: Plantae
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Phylum: Magnoliophyta
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Class: Magnoliopsida
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Order: Caryophyllales
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Family: Caryophyllaceae
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Genus: Silene
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