| Family | CARYOPHYLLACEAE |
| Genus species | Silene involucrata (Cham. & Schltdl.) Bocquet |
| Bibliography | Candollea 22: 22 (1967)¨ |
| Native Range | Subarctic |
| Primary Biome | Subarctic |
| Habitat | tundra |
| Description | glandular viscid, basal leaves oblanceolate, upper leaves narrowly lanceolate to linear, flowers of 3 on erect pedicels, calyx subventricose, petals longer than sepals |
| Size | 5-30cm |
| Color | milky white |
| Bloom | summer |
| Ca | |
| Type | perennial |
| Cultivation | humous, moist, but in winter drier, semi-shady site alpine house, moist, humous soil, shading in summer |
| Propagation | seed in spring, barely covered, germ. 1-3 months, 13-18°C division in early spring; cuttings in late summer |
| Synonyms | Agrostemma involucratum (Cham. & Schltdl.) G.Don Gastrolychnis angustiflora (Rupr.) Rupr. Gastrolychnis involucrata (Cham. & Schltdl.) Rupr. Gastrolychnis involucrata ssp. elatior (Regel) Á.Löve & D.Löve Gastrolychnis vahlii Rupr. Lychnis apetala var. elatior Regel Lychnis apetala var. involucrata Cham. & Schltdl. Lychnis brachycalyx Raup. Lychnis furcata (Raf.) Fernald Lychnis furcata ssp. elatior (Regel) Maguire Lychnis gillettii B.Boivin Lychnis intermedia Nasarow Lychnis triflora Hornem. Lychnis triflora var. elatior (Regel) B.Boivin Melandrium affine ssp. angustiflorum (Rupr.) Tolm. Melandrium affine var. brachycalyx (Raup) Hultén Melandrium angustiflorum (Rupr.) Walp. Melandrium furcatum (Raf.) Hadač Melandrium gillettii (B.Boivin) Ritchie Melandrium involucratum (Cham. & Schltdl.) Rohrb. Melandrium vahlii Walp. Silene furcata Raf. Silene furcata ssp. angustiflora (Rupr.) Walters Silene involucrata ssp. angustiflora (Rupr.) Hultén Silene involucrata ssp. elatior (Regel) Bocquet Silene involucrata ssp. furcata (Raf.) V.V.Petrovsky & Elven Wahlbergella affinis Fr. Wahlbergella angustiflora Rupr. Wahlbergella involucrata (Cham. & Schltdl.) Rupr. Wahlbergella vahlii Rupr. |
| Territory | 0 Circumpolar 1 Europe 10 Northern Europe (SVA Svalbard) 14 Eastern Europe (RUN North European Russia) 3 Asia-Temperate 30 Siberia (KRA Krasnoyarsk, WSB West Siberia, YAK Yakutskiya) 31 Russian Far East (KAM Kamchatka, MAG Magadan) 7 Northern America 70 Subarctic America (ASK Alaska, GNL Greenland, NUN Nunavut, NWT Northwest Territories, YUK Yukon) 71 Western Canada (BRC British Columbia, MAN Manitoba) 72 Eastern Canada (LAB Labrador, ONT Ontario, QUE Québec) |