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§1 Plant
Silene gallica L.
vernacular common catchfly — species · Caryophyllaceae
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Forb/herb
- Duration
- Annual, Biennial
- Group
- Dicot
- Family
- Caryophyllaceae Juss.
- Genus
- Silene
§2a
Native status, by region
- CAN Canada Introduced
- HI Hawaii Introduced
- L48 Lower 48 States Introduced
§2b
County-level range
· 124 counties across 20 states/territories§3Cultivation
No cultivation specs.
USDA has not characterised this taxon. Roughly four out of five plants in the database lack the detailed cultivation record present here — typically because they have not been the focus of NRCS Plant Materials work. Range and distribution data are unaffected.
§4Counties, by state
Recorded in 124 counties across 20 states/territories.
Alabama view state ↗ 1 I ▾
Arizona view state ↗ 3 I ▾
California view state ↗ 38 I ▾
- Alameda 06001
- Amador 06005
- Butte 06007
- Calaveras 06009
- Contra Costa 06013
- Del Norte 06015
- El Dorado 06017
- Fresno 06019
- Humboldt 06023
- Kern 06029
- Los Angeles 06037
- Madera 06039
- Marin 06041
- Mendocino 06045
- Monterey 06053
- Napa 06055
- Nevada 06057
- Orange 06059
- Plumas 06063
- Riverside 06065
- Sacramento 06067
- San Bernardino 06071
- San Diego 06073
- San Francisco 06075
- San Luis Obispo 06079
- San Mateo 06081
- Santa Barbara 06083
- Santa Clara 06085
- Santa Cruz 06087
- Shasta 06089
- Solano 06095
- Sonoma 06097
- Stanislaus 06099
- Tehama 06103
- Tulare 06107
- Tuolumne 06109
- Ventura 06111
- Yolo 06113
Colorado view state ↗ 1 I ▾
Florida view state ↗ 4 I ▾
Hawaii view state ↗ 4 I ▾
Kansas view state ↗ 1 I ▾
Louisiana view state ↗ 16 I ▾
Maine view state ↗ 3 I ▾
Massachusetts view state ↗ 3 I ▾
Mississippi view state ↗ 1 I ▾
Missouri view state ↗ 2 I ▾
New Hampshire view state ↗ 1 I ▾
North Carolina view state ↗ 1 I ▾
Oregon view state ↗ 8 I ▾
Pennsylvania view state ↗ 3 I ▾
South Carolina view state ↗ 2 I ▾
Texas view state ↗ 25 I ▾
- Austin 48015
- Bastrop 48021
- Brazos 48041
- Brewster 48043
- Cass 48067
- Chambers 48071
- Fayette 48149
- Galveston 48167
- Grimes 48185
- Hardin 48199
- Harrison 48203
- Jeff Davis 48243
- Madison 48313
- Montgomery 48339
- Nacogdoches 48347
- Newton 48351
- Panola 48365
- Robertson 48395
- Sabine 48403
- San Jacinto 48407
- Shelby 48419
- Upshur 48459
- Walker 48471
- Waller 48473
- Washington 48477
Virginia view state ↗ 1 I ▾
Washington view state ↗ 6 I ▾
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/SIGA ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/5384848 ↗Record version
Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:
usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26
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