Taxon: Silene noctiflora L.

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

Common names:

• night-flowering catchfly   (Source: F BritStace ) – English
  
• silène noctiflore   (Source: F NAmer ) – French
  
• Acker-Lichtnelke   (Source: Zander Ency ) – German
  
• alfinetes-da-noite   (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
  
• nattglim   (Source: Vara kulturvaxt namn ) – Swedish
  

More:

see MMPND for additional names in foreign scripts

Economic importance:

• Weed: potential seed contaminant   (fide F GPlains; F Pacif NW)
  

Distributional range:

• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  Western Asia: Iran; Iraq; Turkey
  Caucasus: Azerbaijan; Russian Federation - Ciscaucasia
  Siberia: Russian Federation - Western Siberia
  Middle Asia: Kazakhstan
  China: China - Xinjiang
• EUROPE
  Northern Europe: Denmark; Sweden [s.w.]; United Kingdom
  Middle Europe: Austria; Belgium; Czech Republic; Hungary; Netherlands; Poland; Slovakia; Switzerland
  East Europe: Estonia; Latvia; Lithuania; Russian Federation - European part; Ukraine [incl. Krym]
  Southeastern Europe: Bosnia and Herzegovina; Bulgaria; Croatia; Greece [n.]; Italy; Macedonia; Montenegro; Romania; Serbia; Slovenia
  Southwestern Europe: France [e.]

• AUSTRALASIA
  New Zealand: New Zealand
• EUROPE
  Northern Europe: Finland; Ireland; Norway; Sweden
  East Europe: Russian Federation - European part [n.]
• NORTHERN AMERICA
  Canada
  United States

References:

• Aldén, B., S. Ryman & M. Hjertson. 2009. Våra kulturväxters namn - ursprung och användning. Formas, Stockholm (Handbook on Swedish cultivated and utility plants, their names and origin).
• Allan, H. H. B. et al. 1961–. Flora of New Zealand.
• Chowdhuri, P. K. 1957. Studies in the genus Silene. Notes Roy. Bot. Gard. Edinburgh 22:244, 251.
• Davis, P. H., ed. 1965–1988. Flora of Turkey and the east Aegean islands.
• Duncan, W. H. & J. T. Kartesz. 1981. Vascular flora of Georgia: an annotated checklist.
• Erhardt, W. et al. 2008. Der große Zander: Enzyklopädie der Pflanzennamen.
• Euro+Med Editorial Committee. Euro+Med Plantbase: the information resource for Euro-Mediterranean plant diversity (on-line resource).
• FNA Editorial Committee. 1993–. Flora of North America.
• Gleason, H. A. & A. Cronquist. 1991. Manual of vascular plants of northeastern United States and adjacent Canada, ed. 2.
• Greuter, W. et al., eds. 1984–. Med-Checklist.
• Groth, D. 2005. pers. comm. [re. Brazilian common names].
• Harrington, H. 1954. Manual of the plants of Colorado.
• Hegi, G. et al. 1979. Illustrierte Flora von Mittel-Europa. ed. 1:1906-1931; ed. 2:1936-68; ed. 3:1966- 3, 2:1138.
• Hitchcock, C. L. & B. Maguire. 1947. A revision of the North American species of Silene. Univ. Wash. Publ. Biol. 13:15.
• Hitchcock, C. L. et al. 1955–1969. Vascular plants of the Pacific Northwest.
• Jalas, J. & J. Suominen. 1972–. Atlas florae europaeae.
• Kartesz, J. T. 1994. A synonymized checklist of the vascular flora of the United States, Canada, and Greenland.
• Kearney, T. H. & R. H. Peebles. 1969. Arizona flora, ed. 2.
• Komarov, V. L. et al., eds. 1934–1964. Flora SSSR. [= Melandrium noctiflorum (L.) Fr.].
• Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium. 1976. Hortus third.
• McGregor, R. L. et al. (The Great Plains Flora Association). 1986. Flora of the Great Plains.
• Munz, P. A. & D. D. Keck. 1959. A California flora.
• Pignatti, S. 1982. Flora d'Italia.
• Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) (on-line resource).
• Radford, A. E. et al. 1964. Manual of the vascular flora of the Carolinas.
• Rechinger, K. H., ed. 1963–. Flora iranica.
• Stace, C. 1995. New flora of the British Isles.
• Steyermark, J. A. 1977. Flora of Missouri.
• Tutin, T. G. et al., eds. 1993. Flora europaea, second edition.
• Vibrans, H., ed. Malezas de México (on-line resource).
• Willis, J. H. 1970–1972. A handbook to plants in Victoria.
• Wu Zheng-yi & P. H. Raven et al., eds. 1994–. Flora of China (English edition).

More:

Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Silene noctiflora.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Silene noctiflora.

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Silene noctiflora.

Check other web resources for Silene noctiflora 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 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.

Images:

• Fruit: U.S. National Seed Herbarium image
• Seed: U.S. National Seed Herbarium image
• Seeds: U.S. National Seed Herbarium image
• Seeds or fruits: Seed ID Workshop image, from Department of Horticulture and Crop Science, Ohio State University

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• Images Note: Be advised that their identity may be inaccurate. Proper identification of a plant may require specialized taxonomic knowledge or comparison with properly documented herbarium material.

Abbreviations & symbols in GRIN Taxonomy

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