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Silene noctiflora

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The night-flowering catchfly is an annual herb producing a hairy, glandular stem up to about 75 or 80 centimeters in maximum height. It is sticky in texture. The hairy, widely lance-shaped leaves grow in opposite pairs and are up to 14 centimeters long and 5 wide, the largest ones located low on the
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lined with a netlike pattern of veining. The five petals are white to pink and each has two lobes at the tip. They measure up to 2.5 centimeters wide when fully open. The fruit is a yellowish-brown capsule with six chambers which splits open to release the seeds.
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As night falls the flowers of the night-flowering catchfly open and release a strong fragrance which attracts night-flying moths which feed on the copious nectar and pollinate the plant.
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in the Canadian prairie provinces and in much of the United States. It grows in fields and in other disturbed habitat.
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stem. The flowers are nocturnal, and occur in an open cyme of up to fifteen blooms, each borne on an erect
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of this species has been sequenced. It is 6.7 megabases long, which is very large compared to some other
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Besides being a competitive weed, the night-flowering catchfly is host to some
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Night-flowering Catchfly

Scientific classification
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Plantae
Tracheophytes
Angiosperms
Eudicots
Caryophyllales
Caryophyllaceae
Silene
Binomial name
L.
Caryophyllaceae
introduced species
weed
grain crops
Wild Night-Flowering Catchfly in Behbahan
Behbahan
pedicel
sepals
plant pathogens
tobacco streak virus
Lychnis ringspot virus
mitochondrial genome
Silene vulgaris
Silene conica
chromosomes
BSBI List 2007
Botanical Society of Britain and Ireland

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