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Forb
Perennial

Native to Georgia
Documented growing wild in GA - -

Rare

Look for it in rocky or sandy flood-scoured riversides or creeksides, per Weakley's Flora

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LEAVES:
Simple
Opposite

FLOWER:
Summer
White
Usually bisexual
Radially symmetrical
5-lobed calyx
5 petals
10 stamens
Superior ovary

FRUIT:
Summer
Capsule

TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!

Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains p037

Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Caryophyllales

WEAKLEY'S FLORA (11/30/12):
Silene nivea FAMILY Caryophyllaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Silene nivea FAMILY Caryophyllaceae

COMMON NAME:
Snowy Campion

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"Common names should be written in lower case unless part of the name is proper and then the first letter of only the proper term is capitalized. For example, sugar maple would be written with lower case letters while Japanese maple would be written with the capital J. This is the accepted method for writing common names in scientific circles and should be familiar to the student. In this text, and many others, common names are written with capital first letters. This was done to set the name off from the rest of the sentence and make it more evident to the reader. Actually in modern horticultural writings the capitalized common name predominates." — Michael Dirr, Manual of Woody Landscape Plants