This plant germinated quickly from a package of NARGS seed labelled Frasera! I like it's simple style and colour and would like to offer seed.
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Re: silene species needs identification
Thank you Todd. Always curious as to how seed strays. I have a perennial silene far away from this spot and I don't collect seed from it. So I assume it must have been in the package of Frasera.
I won't be offering this annual to the exchanges of course!
Sharon
Re: silene species needs identification
I don't think it's Silene armeria, Todd: the color is too pale (armeria is usually magenta) and the flowers even more clustered, and the foliage darker. This has a basal rosette, indicating it could be at least biennial. We shall have to crack open our Silene handbook by Jim Jones: I'll bet it will help!
Re: silene species needs identification
I didn't think the rosette leaves in the upper right corner were from the Silene. I'm still not convinced it is. The picture is a little blurry but I thought the bare stem rising from the lower right side was from the plant. If so, it looks annual to me. Looking in Jone's book, I see no Silene that match. Armeria is closest but I agree the colour is a bit pale. I cannot even see any clean foiage in the pic to use that as a help since armeria has such distinctly-coloured foliage.
Looks like one of the annual silenes, maybe S. armeria.