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Perennial

Non-native: Europe

Documented growing wild in - NC -

Waif(s)

Look for it in disturbed areas, per Weakley's Flora

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Invasive?

This plant may be causing problems in natural areas outside its native range, according to authorities such as:

 

 

LEAVES:
Simple
Opposite
Margins entire

FLOWER:
Spring/Summer
Pink, reddish-pink, white
Bisexual
Radially symmetrical
5 petals
10 stamens
Superior ovary

FRUIT:
Capsule

 

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

WEAKLEY'S FLORA (5/21/15):
 Lychnis flos-cuculi   FAMILY Caryophyllaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
 Lychnis flos-cuculi   FAMILY Caryophyllaceae

INCLUDING Flora of North America
 Silene flos-cuculi ssp. flos-cuculi

 

COMMON NAME:
 Ragged Robin

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image of Lychnis flos-cuculi, Ragged Robin

USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913    pnd_lyfl3_001_lvd

        

Petal limbs deeply divided into 4 linear segments, per Weakley's Flora (2015).