Stemless Silene

The stemless silene ( Silene acaulis ) is a crawling hardy perennial, pertaining to the family of the Caryophyllacées and the kind Silene . It pushes in mountain, in the majority of the countries of Europe and in the west of the United States; the sheets form kinds of foam carpet of which emergent of the pink flowers with short stalk.

Description

Plant crawling forming cushions of a sharp green between the rocks. Many very small, linear and pointed sheets. In spite of its stemless qualifier of (= without stem), its flowers, generally solitary, are carried by short stalks. Their color varies pale pink with the crimson, they are more rarely white. The chalice is often tinted of red. Corolla with five indented petals and projecting cheesecloths (10 cheesecloths, 3 styles).

Characteristics

(subspecies acaulis )
  • reproductive Bodies:
    • Standard of inflorescence: cyme bipare
    • Distribution of the sexes: Standard hermaphrodite
    • of pollination: entomogame
    • Period of flowering: June at September
  • seed:
    • Standard of fruit: capsule
    • Mode of dissemination: anémochore
  • Habitat and distribution:
    • standard Habitat: climacic arctico-alpine basophilic lawns
    • Surface of distribution: arctico-alpine
given according to: Julve, pH., 1998 FF. - Baseflor. Botanical, ecological and chorologic index of the flora of France. Version: April 23rd, 2004.

Subspecies and varieties

  • Silene acaulis (L.) Jacq. subsp. acaulis
  • Silene acaulis (L.) Jacq. subsp. bryoides (Jord.) Nyman
  • Silene acaulis (L.) Jacq. subsp. cenisia Killias
  • Silene acaulis (L.) Jacq. subsp. longiscapa Vierh.

  • Silene acaulis (L.) Jacq. VAr. exscapa (All.) cd. (the United States)

  • Silene acaulis (L.) Jacq. VAr. subacaulescens (F.N. Williams) Fern. & St John (the United States)

References

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