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Silene littorea is a low-growing annual wild flower of the pink family, native to the Iberian Peninsula and Morocco. It is a wild species rather than a commonly grown garden plant, and is noted in the sources for its rarity and declining populations in Spain.
Silene littorea is a species of flowering plant within the family Caryophyllaceae. The species has the gynodioecy–gynomonoecy sexual system. It is one of the most studied species with this sexual system.
The species is native to Morocco, Portugal, Spain. The population of this species has been observed to be declining in Spain. The species is rare in Gibraltr and restricted to eastern sandy slopes.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Silene littorea 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.
