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ragged-robin

Silene flos-cuculi

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Easily confused with

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Where it is recorded

Records by month in Alaska.January 9,218, February 6,808, March 10,667, April 16,782, May 24,197, June 26,385, July 28,234, August 24,281, September 17,827, October 13,306, November 7,271, December 5,683.
United States195,989
Alaska190,661
Russia6,573
United Kingdom4,045
Germany3,061
England2,915
Austria1,989
New York1,667
Canada1,528
France1,461

Counts show where people looked, not only where it lives.

Traits

Group and habits

Edibility, toxicity and medicinal traits are records from datasets, not advice. Never eat, handle or use a wild species on the strength of an app.

Classification

KingdomPlants · Plantae
PhylumVascular Plants · Tracheophyta
ClassDicots · Magnoliopsida
Orderpinks, cactuses, and allies · Caryophyllales
Familypink family · Caryophyllaceae
GenusCatchflies · Silene

Sources

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Practise ragged-robin with real photos from different observers. Say the name out loud, and it comes back just before you would forget it.

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