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Silene catesbaei; photograph Pattavina, Pete, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons Public domainPattavina, Pete, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Silene catesbaei Walter

Caryophyllaceae · Florida, Georgia

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Silene catesbaei, photograph USFWS Endangered Species, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia CommonsSilene catesbaei, photograph USFWS Endangered Species, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons 3 photographs ›

Summary

Silene polypetala (syn. Silene catesbaei) is a rare species of flowering plant in the family Caryophyllaceae known by the common names eastern fringed catchfly and fringed campion. It is native to Georgia and northern Florida in the United States. It is threatened by the loss and degradation of suitable habitat. It is a federally listed endangered species of the United States.

Quoted from Wikipedia, "Silene polypetala", CC BY-SA 4.0; its title is one of this species' older names (GBIF Backbone), which is the proof that the article is this species'.

About the genus · Silene

Silene is a genus of flowering plants in the family Caryophyllaceae. Containing between 500 and 900 species, it is the largest genus in the family. Common names include campion and catchfly. More on Wikipedia ›

Quoted from Wikipedia, "Silene", CC BY-SA 4.0.

Cultivation

Not checked: GBIF's records were not asked (why, under the name), and the habitat climate is read only from them, so no sheet is derived.

Climate across the habitat

Not checked. GBIF's records were not asked (why, under the name), and the habitat climate is read only from them, so none is derived here. This is not a statement that no climate exists.

Natural habitat

Native range as published by WCVP.
Records not checked: GBIF's records were not asked, as said under the name.
NativeFlorida, Georgia · regions are the level-3 units of the World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions, as Kew's World Checklist records ranges, some under historical names such as Yugoslavia or Czechoslovakia (how).
Doubtfully present inAlabama · recorded by WCVP as doubtfully present: not part of the range records are tested against
Kew's description“perennial or rhizomatous geophyte” · “temperate” · quoted from WCVP, RBG Kew (CC BY 4.0); not derived here
Evidence usedGBIF's records not checked, as said under the name: so there are no points on the map, no map marker and no climate across the range; the range is Kew's. Not a statement that no record exists.

Photographs

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Photographs: USFWS Endangered Species, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (2).

Similar habitat climate Not checked: GBIF's records were not asked (why, under the name), and the nearest habitat climates are read from the climate they give.

Other Silene 130 in the reference

Silene acaulis Silene acaulis Moss campion Photo: CC BY, Rowan FehrSilene aegyptiaca Silene aegyptiaca Egyptian Campion Photo: CC BY, Marios Thoma Silene altaica Caryophyllaceae Silene andryalifolia Silene andryalifolia Caryophyllaceae Photo: CC BY, Mehdi ChetibiSilene antirrhina Silene antirrhina Sleepy catchfly Photo: CC BY, Dustin SniderSilene argaea Silene argaea Caryophyllaceae Photo: CC BY-SA, Ghislain118 (AD)…Silene baccifera Silene baccifera Caryophyllaceae Photo: CC0, author not statedSilene banksia Silene banksia Caryophyllaceae Photo: CC BY, Tatyana PetrenkoSilene boryi Silene boryi Caryophyllaceae Photo: CC BY, frangpSilene borysthenica Silene borysthenica Caryophyllaceae Photo: CC BY, Анна МитрошенковаSilene bungei Silene bungei Caryophyllaceae Photo: CC BY, Oleg KosterinSilene bupleuroides Silene bupleuroides Caryophyllaceae Photo: CC0, author not stated all 131 ›

Names & registers

Also known as Cucubalus polypetalus; Silene baldwinii; Silene polypetala; Melandrium baldwinii; Silene fimbriata. (WCVP, RBG Kew)

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The record

Family
Caryophyllaceae
Described by
Walter
Native to
Florida, Georgia
Records
not checked · GBIF's records were not asked: the page has no GBIF key

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Where this page came from built 2026-10-22
Kew's names (WCVP) kew.names answeredas of 2026-06-04Kew's entry Silene catesbaei Walter (plant_name_id 2485410), read from Kew's names file
GBIF species record gbif.species not askedGBIF's backbone holds no one accepted species of this name, and a name it holds only as another species' synonym is not taken for this one, so GBIF's records were not asked
GBIF synonyms gbif.synonyms not askedGBIF's backbone holds no one accepted species of this name, and a name it holds only as another species' synonym is not taken for this one, so GBIF's records were not asked
GBIF common names gbif.vernacular not askedGBIF's backbone holds no one accepted species of this name, and a name it holds only as another species' synonym is not taken for this one, so GBIF's records were not asked
GBIF occurrence records gbif.occurrences not askedGBIF's backbone holds no one accepted species of this name, and a name it holds only as another species' synonym is not taken for this one, so GBIF's records were not asked
WCVP native range wcvp.distribution answeredas of 2026-06-04
Habitat climate climate not askedGBIF's backbone holds no one accepted species of this name, and a name it holds only as another species' synonym is not taken for this one, so GBIF's records were not asked, and the habitat climate is read only from them
Wikidata wikidata answeredasked 2026-10-22found by Kew's IPNI identifier 157040-1, POWO 157040-1
Wikipedia wikipedia answeredasked 2026-10-22
iNaturalist photographs, wild inat.photos.wild not asked
iNaturalist photographs, cultivated inat.photos.cultivated not asked
GBIF media gbif.media not askedGBIF's backbone holds no one accepted species of this name, and a name it holds only as another species' synonym is not taken for this one, so GBIF's records were not asked
Wikimedia Commons commons answeredasked 2026-10-22
OpenAlex papers openalex not askednot yet asked for this reference; a later fill takes the papers from OpenAlex's snapshot

Every source is recorded as having answered, reported nothing, refused, failed, not been asked, or answered twice where one answer is taken (“not taken: two items answered”), and, for a source asked when this page was built, when: the figures are as the source held them that day; a source read from a file (Kew's World Checklist, a GBIF download) says "as of" the file's day instead; a row carried from an earlier build of the page names that build instead. Only “nothing to report” is ever shown as an absence.

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