| Common Name: | Night-flowering catchfly |
| Family: | Caryophyllaceae |
| Genus: | Silene |
| Species: | noctiflora |
| Classification/Rank: | Invasive |
| Method of Transportation: | |
| Habitat/Range: | • reported in 1993 along the railroad track at Owen Creek Ranch near Smithers. • other sites near Smithers. • site reported at Piniche Lake Campsite north of Fort St. James |
• annual herb that grows 0.20 to 0.9 m tall
• stems erect, several, branched, hairy, becoming sticky-hairy above
• basal leaves spoon-shaped, short stalked; stem leaves opposite, elliptical, unstalked, hairy above and below
• flowers yellowish beneath, rosy above, 5 petals; opens at night; woolly glandular-hairy tube when closed
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