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Silene akaisialpina is a small perennial cushion-forming plant of the pink family, found in high mountains of central Honshu, Japan, and reported from Hokkaido. It is a wild alpine species rather than a commonly grown garden plant, so care advice is based on its subalpine habitat.
Silene akaisialpina is a species of plant native to the mountains of central Honshu, Japan . It has also been reported on the island of Hokkaido.
In 1955, it was recognized by Takasi Yamazaki as a variety of Silene keiskei, called Melandrium keiskei var. akaisialpinum. It was later renamed Silene keiskei var. akaisialpina and then reclassified as its own species in 1997.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Silene akaisialpina by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
