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Taxon: Silene chalcedonica (L.) E. H. L. Krause

Genus:

Silene

Family:

Caryophyllaceae

Subfamily:

Caryophylloideae

Tribe:

Sileneae

Nomen number:

429989

Place of publication:

J. Sturm, Deutschl. Fl. ed. 2, 5:96. 1901

Link to protologue:

Name Verified on:

14-Jan-2003 by ARS Systematic Botanists. Last Changed: 14-Jan-2003

Species priority site is:

Accessions:

0 (0 active, 0 available) in National Plant Germplasm System

Synonyms:

Basionym: Lychnis chalcedonica L.

Common names:

Maltese cross (Source: Hortus 3) - English
scarlet-lychnis (Source: F NAmer) - English
croix de Jérusalem (Source: F NAmer) - French
lychnide de Chalcédoine (Source: F NAmer) - French
brennende Liebe (Source: Zander Ency) - German
studentnejlika (Source: Kulturvaxtdatabas) - Swedish
zhou ye jian qui luo (Source: F ChinaEng) - Transcribed Chinese

Economic Importance:

Environmental: ornamental (fide Dict Gard, as Lychnis chalcedonica; F NAmer); ornamental (fide Dict Gard, as Lychnis chalcedonica; F NAmer)

Distributional Range:

Native

Asia-Temperate

SIBERIA: Russian Federation-Eastern Siberia, [Eastern Siberia (w.)] Russian Federation-Western Siberia [Western Siberia]
MIDDLE ASIA: Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan
MONGOLIA: Mongolia
CHINA: China [Gansu Sheng, Xinjiang Uygur Zizhiqu]

Europe

EASTERN EUROPE: Russian Federation-European part [European part (s.)]

Cultivated

(also cult.)

Adventive

Northern America

Canada, United States

References:

Erhardt, W. et al. Der große Zander: Enzyklopädie der Pflanzennamen. 2008 (Zander Ency)
Euro+Med Editorial Committee Euro+Med Plantbase: the information resource for Euro-Mediterranean plant diversity (on-line resource). (EuroMed Plantbase)
FNA Editorial Committee Flora of North America. (F NAmer)
Komarov, V. L. et al., eds. Flora SSSR. (F USSR)
Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) (on-line resource). (Pl Names)
Tutin, T. G. et al., eds. Flora europaea, ed. 2. (F Eur ed2)
Wu Zheng-yi & P. H. Raven et al., eds. Flora of China (English edition). (F ChinaEng)

Check other web resources for Silene chalcedonica (L.) E. H. L. Krause :

Flora Europaea: Database of European Plants (ESFEDS)
Flora of North America: Collaborative Floristic Effort of North American Botanists
PLANTS: USDA-NRCS Database of Plants of the United States and its Territories
BONAP North American Plant Atlas of the Biota of North America Program:
Flora of China: Online version from Harvard University
TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
ePIC: Electronic Plant Information Centre of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
AGRICOLA: Article Citation Database or NAL Catalog of USDA's National Agricultural Library
Entrez: NCBI's search engine for PubMed citations, GenBank sequences, etc.
PubAg: USDA's National Agricultural Library database of full-text journal articles and citations on the agricultural sciences.

Cite as: USDA, Agricultural Research Service, National Plant Germplasm System. 2019. Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN-Taxonomy).
National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland. URL: https://npgsweb.ars-grin.gov/gringlobal/taxonomydetail.aspx?id=429989. Accessed 21 April 2019.