Silene marmorensis

Marble mountain campion, Marble Mountain Campion

Family: Caryophyllaceae · Type: perennial · Native

Conservation status: CNPS 1B.2

Marble mountain campion is a rare (CNPS 1B.2) California native perennial found in the Klamath Ranges of Humboldt and Siskiyou counties in oak woodland and conifer forest at elevations of 850 to 1,000 meters. Flowering during summer, this plant produces pale pink flowers with deep-colored lobes on erect stems. Growing 25 to 40 centimeters tall with erect, glandular-puberulent stems, it develops a sparse woody caudex. Its leaves gradually reduce in size from bottom to top, with lower leaves being lanceolate and measuring 2 to 4.5 centimeters long and 5 to 10 millimeters wide. The fruit is an ovoid capsule carried on a short puberulent stalk, containing small black seeds about 2 to 3 millimeters in size.

Habitat: Oak woodland, conifer forest

Bloom period: Summer

Elevation: 850-1000 m

Bioregions: KR (Humboldt, Siskiyou cos.).

California counties: Siskiyou

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