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§1 Plant
Silene armeria L.
vernacular sweet William silene — species · Caryophyllaceae
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Forb/herb
- Duration
- Annual
- Group
- Dicot
- Family
- Caryophyllaceae Juss.
- Genus
- Silene
Native status, by region
- AK Alaska Introduced
- CAN Canada Introduced
- L48 Lower 48 States Introduced
County-level range
· 194 counties across 26 states/territories§3Cultivation
No cultivation specs.
USDA has not characterised this taxon. Roughly four out of five plants in the database lack the detailed cultivation record present here — typically because they have not been the focus of NRCS Plant Materials work. Range and distribution data are unaffected.
§4Counties, by state
Recorded in 194 counties across 26 states/territories.
Alaska view state ↗ 1 I ▾
Arkansas view state ↗ 1 I ▾
District of Columbia view state ↗ 1 I ▾
Florida view state ↗ 1 I ▾
Georgia view state ↗ 3 I ▾
Illinois view state ↗ 10 I ▾
Iowa view state ↗ 1 I ▾
Louisiana view state ↗ 1 I ▾
Maine view state ↗ 7 I ▾
Massachusetts view state ↗ 12 I ▾
Michigan view state ↗ 21 I ▾
Minnesota view state ↗ 6 I ▾
Missouri view state ↗ 1 I ▾
New Hampshire view state ↗ 8 I ▾
New Jersey view state ↗ 10 I ▾
New York view state ↗ 21 I ▾
North Carolina view state ↗ 9 I ▾
Ohio view state ↗ 9 I ▾
Pennsylvania view state ↗ 28 I ▾
- Allegheny 42003
- Berks 42011
- Bucks 42017
- Butler 42019
- Carbon 42025
- Centre 42027
- Clarion 42031
- Clearfield 42033
- Cumberland 42041
- Dauphin 42043
- Delaware 42045
- Elk 42047
- Erie 42049
- Indiana 42063
- Lackawanna 42069
- Lancaster 42071
- Lebanon 42075
- Lehigh 42077
- Luzerne 42079
- Monroe 42089
- Montgomery 42091
- Northampton 42095
- Philadelphia 42101
- Pike 42103
- Snyder 42109
- Somerset 42111
- Susquehanna 42115
- Wayne 42127
Rhode Island view state ↗ 3 I ▾
South Carolina view state ↗ 1 I ▾
Tennessee view state ↗ 1 I ▾
Vermont view state ↗ 7 I ▾
Virginia view state ↗ 10 I ▾
West Virginia view state ↗ 6 I ▾
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/SIAR ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/7738796 ↗Record version
Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:
usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26
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