| Family | CARYOPHYLLACEAE |
| Genus species | Silene repens Patrin |
| Synonyms | Silene fauriei H.Lév. & Vaniot |
| Silene gypsophila Desf. | |
| Silene purpurata Greene | |
| Habitat | scree and moraines |
| Altitude | arctic-subarctic |
| Description | densely pubescent, stem ascendent, leaves numerous, basal, leaves linear to narrowly lanceolate, 2-4cm long, sessile, flowers in raceme, petals incised |
| Size | 10-20cm |
| Color | pink, white |
| Bloom | summer |
| Ca | |
| Type | carpet |
| Cultivation | gravelly, humous, moist, semi-shady site alpine house, moist, humous, gravelly soil, semi-shade |
| Propagation | seed in spring, barely covered, germ. 1-3 months, 13-18°C division in early spring; cuttings in late summer |
| Territory |
Circumpolar
Europe Eastern Europe (East European Russia , North European Russia , South European Russia ) Asia-Temperate Siberia (Altay , Buryatiya , Chita , Irkutsk , Krasnoyarsk , Tuva , West Siberia , Yakutskiya ) Russian Far East (Amur , Kamchatka , Khabarovsk , Kuril Is. , Magadan , Primorye , Sakhalin ) Middle Asia (Kazakhstan ) China (China South-Central , Inner Mongolia , Manchuria , China North-Central , Tibet ) Mongolia Eastern Asia (Japan , Korea ) Northern America Subarctic America (Alaska , Northwest Territories , Yukon ) Western Canada (British Columbia ) Northwestern U.S.A. (Idaho , Montana , Washington , Wyoming) |
| Bibliography | Plants of the World online powo.science.kew.org International Plant Names Index www.ipni.org |
| Comments | CARYOPHYLLACEAE
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