DIVERSITY OF LIFE TOMPKINS COUNTY FLORA
Silene noctifloraL.
Mitchell NYNYFA TCUSDA NY
accepted no accepted
Night-flowering Catchfly, Nightflowering Silene

Caryophyllaceae

CAYUGA FLORA (1926) NOTES: Roadside thickets and waste places, in rich gravelly, more or less calcareous, soils; frequent. June-Oct. Dry Run, Spencer; waste places in Ithaca; C.U. campus; near Percy Field; and elsewhere. N. S. to Man., southw. to Fla., Mo., and Utah. Naturalized from Eu. Resembles Lychnis alba, from which it may be distinguished by its perfect flowers, 3 styles, smaller creamy petals, and absence of gynobase.


BH SPECIMENS FOR Silene noctiflora (this list may be incomplete)
 Ithaca, Cornell University greenhouse, 22 Nov 1955, anonymous (BH 249144);
 Ithaca, in Cornell Univ. greenhouse, 22 Nov 1955, anonymous (BH 248466);
 Ithaca, frequent in new clover fields, meadows and sometimes in cultivated ground, native of Europe, 1924, anonymus (BH 249107);
 Town of Ithaca, Cornell University, Pres. White's backyard, dump pile, 30 Jun 1904, Coit (BH 150259);
 Ithaca, annual or winter annual, summer 1932, Curtis 988 (BH 73452);
 Ithaca, Cornell Unversity, Caldwell Field Greenhouse, 8 Apr 1963, Hawes (BH 249145);
 Ithaca, 18 Jun 1916, Bailey (BH 15233);
 Ithaca, Forest Home, flats, south side of Fall Creek, garden, 17 Sep 1919, Bechtel 12019 (BH 15239);
 Ithaca, foot of Elm Street, roadside, 13 Jun 1908, Brown (BH 15236);
 Ithaca, near Moravia, fields, 26 Jul 1875, Dudley (BH 15241);
 Ithaca, 20 Jul 1925, Muenscher 16122 (BH 15229);
 Ithaca, Cayuga Heights, in Muenscher garden, weed, 5 Jul 1935, Muenscher 18837 (BH 15234);
 Ithaca, at mouth of Coy Glen, waste ground, 21 Jun 1913, Palmer 461 (BH 15237);
 Ithaca, 12 Jun 1889, Rowlee (BH 15232);
 Ithaca, Cornell University campus, near College of Agriculture heating plant, waste land, 25 Jun 1915, Severy 4032 (BH 15231);
 Ithaca, east side of Percy Field, 22 Jun 1914, Thomas 2271 (BH 15230);
 Ithaca, Forest Home, in Whetzel garden, weed, 22 Jun 1935, Whetzel 18838 (BH 15235);
 Ithaca, Renwick, near Indian Springs, 14 Jul 1919, Wiegand 12020 (BH 15240);
 Lansing, along railroad between McKinney's Glen and Esty Glen, bank , 25 Jun 1914, Wiegand 2272 (BH 15238);

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