Taxon: Silene gallica L.

• conserved (nom. cons.) against the heterotypic synonyms (Vienna ICBN Art. 14.4 & App. IV) Silene anglica L., nom. rej., Silene lusitanica L., nom. rej., & Silene quinquevulnera L., nom. rej.
• review history of nomenclature proposal concerning this name from the Smithsonian Institution's database

• the 1 historical accession(s) associated with this name.
• Check PlantSearch database of Botanic Gardens Conservation International for possible non-NPGS germplasm.

Common names:

• five-wound catchfly   (Source: Aust Pl Common Names ) – English
  
• French catchfly   (Source: Hortus 3 ) – English
  
• small-flower catchfly   (Source: F BritStace ) – English
  
• silène de France   (Source: F NAmer ) – French
  
• französisches Leimkraut   (Source: Zander Ency ) – German
  
• alfinete-francês   (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
  
• alfinetes-da-terra   (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
  
• franskglim   (Source: Vara kulturvaxt namn ) – Swedish
  

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see MMPND for additional names in foreign scripts

Economic importance:

• Weed: potential seed contaminant   (fide Atlas WWeed)
  

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Distributional range:

• AFRICA
  Macaronesia: Portugal - Azores, Madeira Islands; Spain - Canary Islands
  Northern Africa: Algeria; Egypt; Libya; Morocco; Tunisia
• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  Western Asia: Afghanistan; Cyprus; Egypt - Sinai; Israel; Lebanon; Syria; Turkey
  Caucasus: Georgia; Russian Federation - Ciscaucasia
• EUROPE
  Northern Europe: United Kingdom
  Middle Europe: Austria; Czechoslovakia; Hungary [w.]
  East Europe: Ukraine
  Southeastern Europe: Albania; Bulgaria; Former Yugoslavia; Greece [incl. Crete]; Italy [incl. Sardinia, Sicily]; Romania
  Southwestern Europe: France [incl. Corsica]; Portugal; Spain [incl. Baleares]

• AFRICA
  Northeast Tropical Africa: Ethiopia
  East Tropical Africa: Kenya; Tanzania; Uganda
  South Tropical Africa: Zimbabwe
  Southern Africa: Lesotho; South Africa
  Western Indian Ocean: Mauritius; Reunion
• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  Arabian Peninsula: Saudi Arabia; Yemen
  Eastern Asia: Japan
• ASIA-TROPICAL
  Indian Subcontinent: India
  Malesia: East Timor
• AUSTRALASIA
  Australia: Australia
  New Zealand: New Zealand
• EUROPE
  Middle Europe: Czech Republic; Germany; Poland; Slovakia
  East Europe: Belarus
• NORTHERN AMERICA
  Subarctic America: United States - Alaska
  Eastern Canada: Canada - New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Ontario, Prince Edward Island
  Western Canada: Canada - British Columbia
  Northeastern U.S.A.: United States - Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, New Hampshire, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island
  North-Central U.S.A.: United States - Missouri
  Northwestern U.S.A.: United States - Idaho, Oregon, Washington
  Southeastern U.S.A.: United States - Alabama, Florida, Louisiana, North Carolina, South Carolina
  South-Central U.S.A.: United States - Texas
  Southwestern U.S.A.: United States - Arizona, California
• PACIFIC
  North-Central Pacific: United States - Hawaii
• SOUTHERN AMERICA
  Caribbean: Hispaniola; Jamaica
  Mesoamerica: Costa Rica; Guatemala
  Brazil: Brazil
  Western South America: Bolivia; Ecuador; Peru
  Southern South America: Argentina; Chile; Uruguay

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• Groth, D. 2005. pers. comm. [re. Brazilian common names].
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Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Silene gallica.

Synonyms:

• (=) Silene anglica L.
  

Check other web resources for Silene gallica L.:

• 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 del Conosur: Catálogo de las Plantas Vasculares del Conosur
• AVH: Australia's Virtual Herbarium
• SIBIS: South African National Biodiversity Institute's (SANBI) Integrated Biodiversity System
• On-line Flora of Zimbabwe
• 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.

Images:

• Seed: U.S. National Seed Herbarium image

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