Silene gallica (Windmill Pink) - Non-Native

 

4/27/03 Gabrielino Trail, Lower Arroyo Seco (JPL to Oakwilde), San Gabriel Mountains,

Los Angeles County, CA

 4/9/05 Gabrielino Trail (JPL to Oakwilde)

 4/2/05 Eaton Canyon Natural Area, San Gabriel Mountains, Los Angeles County, CA

4/29/00 Eaton Canyon Natural Area

LIFE LIST NOTES:

COMMON NAME: Windmill Pink

SPECIES: Silene gallica

FAMILY: Caryophyllaceae (Pink Family)

LIFE LIST DATE:4/29/2000

LOCATION: Eaton Canyon Natural Area, San Gabriel Mountains, Los Angeles County, CA

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Treatment from The Jepson Manual (1993):

Annual 10–40 cm

Stem decumbent to erect, short-rough-hairy to minutely bristly

Leaves gradually reduced upward; lower 1–3.5 cm, 3–5 mm wide, oblanceolate; upper 0.8–2.5 cm, 2–4 mm wide, oblanceolate to oblong

Inflorescence axillary and terminal; flowers ascending to erect, sessile to short-pedicelled

Flower: calyx 6–10 mm, glandular-hairy (especially on veins), 10-veined, lobes ± 1 mm; petal claw glabrous, appendages 2, blade entire to notched, white, pink, or lavender; stamens included; styles 3, included

Fruit ovoid; stalk < 1 mm, puberulent

Seed ± 1 mm, gray

Ecology: Fields, disturbed areas

Elevation: < 1000 m.  

Bioregional distribution: California Floristic Province 

Distribution outside California: to British Columbia, e US; native to Europe