§1 Plant
Silene regia Sims
vernacular royal catchfly — 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
· 105 counties across 14 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 105 counties across 14 states/territories.
Alabama view state ↗ 3 N ▾
Arkansas view state ↗ 7 N ▾
Florida view state ↗ 2 N ▾
Georgia view state ↗ 5 N ▾
Illinois view state ↗ 11 N ▾
Indiana view state ↗ 19 N ▾
Kansas view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Kentucky view state ↗ 9 N ▾
Michigan view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Missouri view state ↗ 38 N ▾
- Barry 29009
- Benton 29015
- Boone 29019
- Camden 29029
- Carter 29035
- Cedar 29039
- Christian 29043
- Cole 29051
- Crawford 29055
- Dade 29057
- Dallas 29059
- Dent 29065
- Douglas 29067
- Franklin 29071
- Greene 29077
- Howell 29091
- Jasper 29097
- Jefferson 29099
- Laclede 29105
- Lawrence 29109
- Madison 29123
- Maries 29125
- McDonald 29119
- Miller 29131
- Oregon 29149
- Ozark 29153
- Phelps 29161
- Polk 29167
- Pulaski 29169
- Shannon 29203
- St. Clair 29185
- St. Louis 29189
- Stone 29209
- Taney 29213
- Texas 29215
- Washington 29221
- Webster 29225
- Wright 29229
Ohio view state ↗ 6 N ▾
Oklahoma view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Tennessee view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Wisconsin view state ↗ 1 N ▾
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/SIRE2 ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/5384746 ↗Record version
Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:
usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26
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