§1 Plant
Silene nivea (Nutt.) Muhl. ex Otth
vernacular evening campion — species · Caryophyllaceae
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Forb/herb
- Duration
- Perennial
- Group
- Dicot
- Family
- Caryophyllaceae Juss.
- Genus
- Silene
§2a
Native status, by region
- L48 Lower 48 States Native
§2b
County-level range
· 144 counties across 19 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 144 counties across 19 states/territories.
District of Columbia view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Georgia view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Illinois view state ↗ 42 N ▾
- Adams 17001
- Boone 17007
- Brown 17009
- Bureau 17011
- Calhoun 17013
- Cass 17017
- Coles 17029
- Cook 17031
- Crawford 17033
- Cumberland 17035
- DeKalb 17037
- DuPage 17043
- Edgar 17045
- Fayette 17051
- Grundy 17063
- Hancock 17067
- Henderson 17071
- Henry 17073
- Jersey 17083
- Jo Daviess 17085
- Kane 17089
- Kankakee 17091
- Kendall 17093
- Knox 17095
- LaSalle 17099
- Macoupin 17117
- Mason 17125
- McDonough 17109
- McHenry 17111
- McLean 17113
- Menard 17129
- Peoria 17143
- Putnam 17155
- Rock Island 17161
- Sangamon 17167
- Scott 17171
- Stark 17175
- Vermilion 17183
- Warren 17187
- Will 17197
- Winnebago 17201
- Woodford 17203
Indiana view state ↗ 18 N ▾
Iowa view state ↗ 2 N ▾
Kentucky view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Maine view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Maryland view state ↗ 8 N ▾
Massachusetts view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Minnesota view state ↗ 5 N ▾
Missouri view state ↗ 10 N ▾
New Jersey view state ↗ 1 N ▾
New York view state ↗ 4 N ▾
Pennsylvania view state ↗ 12 N ▾
South Dakota view state ↗ 3 N ▾
Virginia view state ↗ 6 N ▾
West Virginia view state ↗ 4 N ▾
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/SINI ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/7936925 ↗Record version
Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:
usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26
fetched 2026-05-26T14:17:10Z