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Silene acaulis


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Silene acaulis, moss campion, is a small, mountain-dwelling wildflower with pink flowers on mossy carpets.


Description:
Silene acaulis, known as moss campion or cushion pink, is a small, mountain-dwelling wildflower that forms extensive moss-like mounds or carpets that spread and flow over and around rocks. Long, woody taproots serve as anchors in rock crevices. Pretty little pink-violet flowers bloom above its mostly basal, densely crowded, bright green foliage during summer months. A fascinator in the sunny rock garden and flowing over retaining walls. It is also called compass plant because the flowers begin to bloom on the south side of the mat. Tolerant of both dry and moist locations.


Common Name: Moss Campion

Family: Caryophyllaceae (The Pink Family)

Zone Hardiness: 2-9

Light: Full Sun

Height: under 4"

Width: 4-8"

Primary Bloom Colour: Pink

Secondary Bloom Colour: White/Cream

Class: Evergreen

Type: Perennial

Bloom Time: Summer

Soil Moisture: Moist, Average, Dry

Stem Colour:

Fragrance: No

Berries: No

Benefits: Bees, Butterflies

Deer Resistant: Unknown

BC Native: Yes

Native Habitat: Arctic, tundra, alpine, and sub-alpine zones in a circumboreal and circumpolar distrubtion at high altitudes and latitudes across North America, Europe and Asia.

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Geogrpahical Origin: Americas - North America

Europe and Africa - Europe and Western Russia

Asia and the Pacific - North Central and Eastern Asia

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