Klamath Mountain Catchfly

Description

Silene salmonacea-is a rare, newly described species of flowering plant in the-pink family-known by the common names-Klamath Mountain catchfly-and-salmon-flowered catchfly. It is known only from-Trinity County, California, where it grows in the forests of the southern-Klamath Mountains.-It is a member of the-serpentine soils-flora. It is a small perennial herb growing just a few centimeters tall. The spoon-shaped leaves are up to 3.5 centimeters long. The herbage is gray-green and lightly woolly in texture. Each flower has a tubular calyx of fused-sepals-lined with ten veins. There are five-salmon pink-petals, each with four lobes at the tip.