Taxon: Silene coeli-rosa (L.) Godr.

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Common names:

• rose-of-heaven   (Source: BSBI ) – English
  
• silène rose-du-ciel   (Source: L Noms French ed7 ) – French
  
• Himmelsröschen   (Source: Zander Ency ) – German
  
• alfinetes   (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
  

More:

see MMPND for additional names in foreign scripts

Economic importance:

• Environmental: ornamental   (fide Dict Gard; Eur Gard F)
  

Distributional range:

• AFRICA
  Northern Africa: Algeria [n.]; Morocco; Tunisia
• EUROPE
  Southeastern Europe: Italy [incl. Sardinia, Sicily]
  Southwestern Europe: France - Corsica; Spain [s.]

• AFRICA
  Macaronesia: Spain - Canary Islands
  Northern Africa: Libya
• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  Western Asia: Lebanon
• EUROPE
  Southeastern Europe: Albania; Serbia

• also cultivated

References:

• Allan, H. H. B. et al. 1961–. Flora of New Zealand.
• Botanical Society of the British Isles. BSBI taxon database (on-line resource).
• Demilly, D. et al. 2001. Liste alphabétique des principales espèces de plantes cultivées et de mauvaises herbes. Noms latins et noms français, ed. 7.
• 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).
• Greuter, W. et al., eds. 1984–. Med-Checklist.
• Groth, D. 2005. pers. comm. [re. Brazilian common names].
• Hansen, A. & P. Sunding. 1993. Flora of Macaronesia: checklist of vascular plants, ed. 4. Sommerfeltia vol. 17.
• Huxley, A., ed. 1992. The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening.
• Jalas, J. & J. Suominen. 1972–. Atlas florae europaeae.
• Mouterde, P. 1966–. Nouvelle flore du Liban et de la Syrie.
• Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) (on-line resource).
• Tutin, T. G. et al., eds. 1993. Flora europaea, second edition.
• Walters, S. M. et al., eds. 1986–. European garden flora.

More:

Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Silene coeli-rosa.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Silene coeli-rosa.

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Silene coeli-rosa.

Synonyms:

• (≡) Agrostemma coeli-rosa L. (basionym)
  
• (≡) Eudianthe coeli-rosa (L.) Endl.
  

Check other web resources for Silene coeli-rosa (L.) Godr.:

• Flora Europaea: Database of European Plants (ESFEDS)
• 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.

Check other web resources for images:

• PlantSystematics.org
• 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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