Plantae > Tracheophyta > Magnoliopsida > Caryophyllales > Caryophyllaceae > Silene > Silene latifoliaSilene latifolia (bladder campion; bladder-campion; White Campion)Synonyms: Lychnis dioica macrocarpa; Lychnis dioica var. nana; Lychnis loveae; Melandrium album f. incarnatum; Melandrium macrocarpum var. crassifolium; Melandrium pratense var. macrocalycinum; Melandrium stenocarpum; Silene alba; Silene dioica; Silene macrocarpa Silene latifolia (formerly Melandrium album), the white campion is a dioecious flowering plant in the family Caryophyllaceae, native to most of Europe, Western Asia and Northern Africa. It is a herbaceous annual, occasionally biennial or a short-lived perennial plant, growing to between 40-80 centimetres tall. It is also known in the USA as bladder campion but should not be confused with Silene vulgaris, which is more generally called Bladder Campion. |
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IUCN Category |
Area acres |
Location |
Species |
Website |
Climate |
Land Use |
Algonquin Provincial Park |
IV |
1868802 |
Ontario, Canada |
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Banff National Park |
II |
1690912 |
Alberta, Canada |
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Calvin College Ecosystem Preserve |
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90 |
Michigan, United States |
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Chippewa Nature Center |
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Michigan, United States |
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Elk Island National Park |
II |
47171 |
Alberta, Canada |
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Forillon National Park |
II |
61010 |
Quebec, Canada |
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Fundy National Park |
II |
52716 |
New Brunswick, Canada |
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Georgian Bay Islands National Park |
II |
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Ontario, Canada |
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Glacier National Park |
II |
953799 |
Montana, United States |
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Great Smoky Mountains National Park |
II |
515454 |
North Carolina, Tennessee, United States |
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Jasper National Park |
II |
2776809 |
Alberta, Canada |
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Kavkazskiy Biosphere Reserve |
Ia |
692723 |
Krasnodar, Karachay-Cherkessia, Adygea, Russia |
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Lake Superior Provincial Park |
IV |
351011 |
Ontario, Canada |
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Magadansky Zapovednik |
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2332834 |
Russia |
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Mount Revelstoke National Park |
Ia |
18 |
British Columbia, Canada |
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Point Pelee National Park |
II |
5764 |
Ontario, Canada |
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Pukaskwa National Park |
II |
459860 |
Ontario, Canada |
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Riding Mountain Biosphere Reserve |
II |
762028 |
Manitoba, Canada |
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Rondeau Provincial Park |
II |
5035 |
Ontario, Canada |
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Roosevelt Vanderbilt National Historic Site |
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New York, United States |
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Saint Lawrence Islands National Park |
II |
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Ontario, Canada |
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Southern Appalachian Biosphere Reserve |
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37548505 |
North Carolina, Tennessee, United States |
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Terra Nova National Park |
IV |
125894 |
Newfoundland, Canada |
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Wapusk National Park |
II |
2614324 |
Manitoba, Canada |
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Attributes / relations provided by ♦ 1Derived from Allergy-Free Gardening OPALS™, Thomas Leo Ogren (2000) ♦ 2Arnold SEJ, Faruq S, Savolainen V, McOwan PW, Chittka L, 2010 FReD: The Floral Reflectance Database — A Web Portal for Analyses of Flower Colour. PLoS ONE 5(12): e14287. ♦ 3Plants For A Future licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License♦ 4ECOFACT 2a Technical Annex - Ellenberg’s indicator values for British Plants, M O Hill, J O Mountford, D B Roy & R G H Bunce (1999) ♦ 5Kattge, J. et al. (2011b) TRY - a global database of plant traits Global Change Biology 17:2905-2935 ♦ 6Ecology of Commanster♦ 7Biological Records Centre Database of Insects and their Food Plants♦ 8Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics. |
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0
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