''Viscaria'' is a genus of flowering plants in the family
Caryophyllaceae
Caryophyllaceae, commonly called the pink family or carnation family, is a family of flowering plants. It is included in the dicotyledon order Caryophyllales in the APG III system, alongside 33 other families, including Amaranthaceae, Cactacea ...
, native to Canada, Greenland, Iceland, Europe, Kazakhstan, and western Siberia.
Molecular studies attempting to resolve relationships in the tribe Sileneae have found that ''Viscaria'' is closely genetically related to the genus ''
Atocion'', but is quite distinct from it morphologically.
Species
Currently accepted species include:
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Viscaria alpina''
( L.) G.Don
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Viscaria asterias''
(Griseb.
August Heinrich Rudolf Grisebach () was a German botany, botanist and phytogeography, phytogeographer. He was born in Hannover on 17 April 1814 and died in Göttingen on 9 May 1879.
Biography
Grisebach studied at the Lyceum in Hanover, the clo ...
) Frajman
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Viscaria × media''
Fr. ex Svanlund
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Viscaria vulgaris
''Viscaria vulgaris'', the sticky catchfly or clammy campion, is a flowering plant in the family Caryophyllaceae.
It is an upright perennial growing to in height. The leaves are lanceolate. The flowers, which are 20 mm across and bright rosy-pi ...
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Röhl.
References
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Caryophyllaceae
Caryophyllaceae genera