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Forked Catchfly
Silene dichotoma subsp. euxina
40.2455, 23.3534
Field Notes
Description:
Annual or biennial, herbaceous plant. Stem single, rarely numerous, up to 50 cm high, erect, with short, wound hairs. Leaves opposite, densely pubescent, lower broadly lanceolate to lanceolate, middle lanceolate, up to 8 cm long and up to 1 cm wide. Inflorescence terminal dichasium. Calyx 5-merous, 10–12 mm long, with wound hairs, tubular-cylindrical, with 10 parallel veins. Petals wide, bifid, ca 1.5 cm long.
Habitat:
Prefers sandy and gravel beaches, rarely on shore rocks and dry grasslands, most often on sandy soils. The number of plants vary from single individuals up to compact populations of good numbers of plants.
Spotted in the sandy beach of Agios Mamas (Chalkidiki, Greece).
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PublishedJanuary 18, 2016
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