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Plant of the day

I'm starting to clean up my data and going through my floristics photos. There is a lot of stuff:



Common name is, I believe, "catch-fly". The family Caryophyllaceae is generally identified by having opposite leaves, swollen nodes, and claw-and-limb petals in multiples of five (usually lobed, sometimes to the point where it looks like there are ten petals instead of five). Silene in particular has sort of ribbed calyx tube and hairy stems.

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