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  3. ›flowering plants
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Viscaria
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Viscaria

Viscaria is a genus of flowering plants in the family Caryophyllaceae, 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.

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4 branches of this genus, most-observed first

Sticky Catchfly

speciesViscaria vulgaris

Alpine Catchfly

speciesViscaria alpina

Viscaria asterias

speciesViscaria asterias

Viscaria × media

hybridViscaria × media

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 204229.