Silene taimyrensis
species of plant
Silene taimyrensis, or Taimyr catchfly, is a herbaceous perennial in the family Caryophyllaceae.
Description and Habitat
It is native to the Yukon and British Columbia in Canada and to Alaska. It is found to an elevation of a 1500 meters, growing in exposed subalpine to alpine locations with poor, rocky to sandy soils. 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. S. taimyrensis is known in the fossil record from the Late Pleistocene.
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