Silene invisa

Short-petaled campion, Short-Petaled Campion

Family: Caryophyllaceae · Type: perennial · Native

Short-petaled campion is a California native perennial found in the Klamath Ranges, southern Cascade Range, and northern Sierra Nevada Mountains in open areas and conifer forests at elevations of 900 to 2,800 meters. Flowering during summer, this plant produces cream to pink flowers small in size with delicate, slightly notched petals. Growing with erect stems 10 to 40 centimeters tall that are puberulent and slightly glandular above, it develops a sparse woody caudex. Its leaves are linear to narrowly oblanceolate, progressively reduced upward, measuring 1.5 to 5 centimeters long and 2 to 6 millimeters wide. The fruit is a small, nearly ovoid to cylindric capsule with a puberulent surface.

Habitat: Open areas, conifer forest

Bloom period: Summer

Elevation: 900-2800 m

Bioregions: KR, s CaRH, n&ampc SNH.

Data from The California Species Project — 14,000+ California species with verified data from CNPS, CDFW, USFWS, Jepson eFlora, Cal-IPC, and more.