Silene schafta

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Plant Characteristics
Habit   herbaceous

Height: 4 in"in" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 4.
Width: 8 in"in" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 8.
Lifespan: perennial
Bloom: early summer, mid summer, late summer, early fall, mid fall, late fall
Cultivation
Exposure: sun
Features: flowers
USDA Zones: 5 to 9
Flower features: red, pink
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Read about Silene schafta in the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture 

Silene schafta, Gmel.; also spelled Schaftae. Perennial, 3-6 in. high, pubescent-scabrous: roots woody: sts. many, arising laterally from the rosettes, weak and procumbent, short, simple or slightly branched: lvs. rosulate, small, obovate-oblong, acute: fls. rose or purple, 1-5, axillary and terminal, solitary; calyx somewhat hirsute, reddish, 10-nerved, long, cylindrical, not inflated; petals broadly obovate, notched, with 2 scales at their base, claw glabrous. June-Oct. Caucasus. CH


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