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|accepted_name=Silene ovata
|accepted_authority=Pursh
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Fl. Amer. Sept.
|place=1: 316. 1813
|year=1813
}}
|common_names=Ovate-leaved campion or catchfly
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Caryophyllaceae;Caryophyllaceae subfam. Caryophylloideae;Silene;Silene ovata
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Caryophyllaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>subfamily</small>[[Caryophyllaceae subfam. Caryophylloideae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Silene]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Silene ovata]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 5
|mention_page=page 171, 197
|treatment_page=
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>perennial, rhizomatous; rhizome creeping. <b>Stems</b> erect, usually simple, 30–150 cm, with short, dense, eglandular pubescence, sparsely so toward base. <b>Leaves</b> sessile, 2 per node; blade prominently 3–5-veined, ovate-acuminate, round at base, (4–)6–10(–13) cm × (20–)30–50(–90) mm, appressed-pubescent on both surfaces. <b>Inflorescences</b> paniculate, narrow, many-flowered, open, bracteate, pedunculate, 10–50 × 3–5 cm, densely puberulent; bracts narrowly lanceolate, 3–15 mm, apex acuminate; peduncle ascending. <b>Pedicels</b> ascending, recurved near apex, ca. equaling calyx. <b>Flowers</b> nocturnal; calyx prominently 10-veined, tubular to narrowly campanulate and 6–9 × 3–4 mm in flower, turbinate and 10–12 × 4–5 mm in fruit, narrowed proximally around carpophore, veins parallel, green, broad, with pale commissures, puberulent, sometimes with few glands, lobes triangular-acute, 2–3 mm; corolla white, clawed, claw equaling calyx, broadened into limb, limb obtriangular, deeply lobed, 7–9 mm, lobes ca. 8, linear, appendages minute; stamens slightly longer than corolla; styles 3, ca. 2 times as long as corolla. <b>Capsules</b> narrowly ovoid, slightly longer than calyx, opening by 3 (splitting into 6) ascending teeth; carpophore 2–2.5 mm. <b>Seeds</b> dark brown, reniform, 0.8–1.5 mm, shallowly tuberculate. <b>2n</b> = 48.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering late summer–fall.
|habitat=Rich woods
|elevation=1000-1900 m
|distribution=Ala.;Ark.;Ga.;Ky.;Miss.;N.C.;S.C.;Tenn.;Va.
|discussion=<p>Of conservation concern.</p><!--
--><p><i>Silene ovata</i> is a very distinctive species with large, ovate, acuminate, sessile, paired leaves, and very narrowly lobed white petals. The flowers open at night and are moth-pollinated.</p>
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name=Silene ovata
|authority=Pursh
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Caryophyllaceae
|phenology=Flowering late summer–fall.
|habitat=Rich woods
|elevation=1000-1900 m
|distribution=Ala.;Ark.;Ga.;Ky.;Miss.;N.C.;S.C.;Tenn.;Va.
|reference=None
|publication title=Fl. Amer. Sept.
|publication year=1813
|special status=
|source xml=https://jpend@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation.git/src/f50eec43f223ca0e34566be0b046453a0960e173/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V5/V5_400.xml
|subfamily=Caryophyllaceae subfam. Caryophylloideae
|genus=Silene
|species=Silene ovata
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