ILLINOIS PLANT INFORMATION NETWORK ILPIN INFORMATION ON Silene regia CLASS: DICOTYLEDENAE ORDER: CARYOPHYLLALES FAMILY: CARYOPHYLLACEAE SCIENTIFIC NAME: Silene regia AUTHORITY: Sims COMMON NAMES: ROYAL CATCHFLY SYNONOMY: None PLANTS CODE: SIRE2 NATURAL COMMUNITIES: FOREST UPLAND FOREST DRY PRAIRIE TYPICAL PRAIRIE DRY SAVANNA BARREN DRY SAF FOREST COVER TYPE: CENTRAL Upland oak White/Black/Northern Red- Oak NATURAL DIVISION: Northeastern Morainal Wabash Border Southern Uplands Lower Miss. R. Bottomlands Northern COUNTIES: CLARK COOK LAWRENCE MADISON ST. CLAIR WABASH WHITE WILL WINNEBAGO GROWTH FORM: Dicot-herb TAXONOMIC CHARACTERISTICS: ROOTS: Primary LEAF ARRANGEMENT: Opposite LEAF TYPE: Simple LEAF MARGIN: Entire LEAF VENATION: Pinnate LEAF SHAPE: Lanceolate Ovate INFLORESCENCE: Solitary- few FLOWER MEROUS: 5 FLOWER STRUCTURE: Complete Regular FLOWER COLOR: Red FLOWER PLACEMENT: Hypogynous FRUIT: Capsule GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION: ORIGIN: Native POPULATION DYNAMICS: STATE STATUS: Endangered-ST FEDERAL STATUS: Not listed COMMONNESS: Rare ENDEMIC: NOT-ENDEMIC BIOLOGIC: HABIT: Forb LIFE CYCLE: Perennial REPRODUCTION: Sexual FLOWERING PERIOD: MONTH BEGINNING- 7 MONTH END- 8 TROPHIC STATUS: Autotrophic C02 FIXATION: C3 SEX: Perfect ECODISTRIBUTION COMMENTS: Roadsides and railroad prairies. ENVIRONMENTAL RELATIONSHIPS: GROWTH OF SPECIES IN VARIOUS CONDITIONS: No data entered HABITAT: Dry FUNCTIONAL RELATIONSHIPS: No data entered HUMAN RELATIONSHIP DATA: SHOWY FLOWERS: YES AMOUNT: Medium WILDLIFE AND LIVESTOCK INFORMATION: No data entered REVEGETATION PLANTINGS: No data entered REFERENCES: Mohlenbrock, R. H., ed. 1975. Guide to the vascular flora of Illinois. Southern Illinois University Press, Carbondale. 494 pp. Jones, G. N. 1963. Flora of Illinois. Third ed. American Midland Naturalist Monograph 7. University of Notre Dame, Indiana. 401 pp. Steyermark, J. A. 1963. Flora of Missouri. Iowa State University Press, Ames. 1725 pp. Gleason, H. A., and A. Cronquist. 1963. Manual of vascular plants of north- eastern United States and adjacent Canada. Van Nostrand Reinhold Co., New York. 810 pp. Fernald, M. L. 1950. Gray's manual of botany. 8th ed. American Book Co., New York. 1632 pp. Swink, F., and G. S. Wilhelm. 1979. Plants of the Chicago region. Third ed. The Morton Arboretum, Lisle, Illinois. 922 pp. Porter, C. L. 1967. Taxonomy of flowering plants. W. H. Freeman and Company, San Francisco. 472 pp. Gleason, H. A. 1952. The new Britton and Brown illustrated flora of the northeastern United States and adjacent Canada. 3 vols. The New York Botanical Garden, New York. Sheviak, C. J. 1981. Endangered and threatened plants. Pages 70-179 in M. L. Bowles, V. E. Diersing, and J. E. Ebinger, eds., Endangered and threatened vertebrate animals and vascular plants of Illinois. Illinois Department of Conservation, Springfield. Downton, W. J. S. 1975. The occurrence of C4 photosynthesis among plants. Photosynthetica 9(1): 96-105. OTHER REFERENCES: King, C. C. 1981. Distribution of Royal Catchfly (Silene regia) with special reference to Ohio populations. Pages 131-141 in R. L. Stuckey and K. J. Reese, eds., Proceedings of the Sixth North American Prairie Conference. Ohio Biological Survey Notes 15. Columbus. END OF DATA FOR SPECIES Silene regia ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ILPIN was developed by Louis Iverson*, with data compiled by David Ketzner and Jeanne Karnes Illinois Natural History Survey, 607 E. Peabody Dr., Champaign, IL 61820 *currently employed by USDA Forest Service, 359 Main Rd., Delaware, OH 43015