Silene invisa cyme of up to three flowers at the top of the stem. Each flower has a bell-shaped calyx of fused sepals lined with ten green veins and covered in short, glandular hairs. The strap-shaped or rectangular petals have blunt tips or may be notched. They are whitish to pinkish or lavender and sometimes barely protrude from the calyx. Silene invisa Silene invisa is a species of flowering plant in the pink family known by the common names red fir catchfly and short-petaled campion. It is endemic to California, where it is known only from the southernmost Cascade Range and northernmost
Calyx (anatomy) Calyx (anatomy) Calyx is a term used in animal anatomy for some cuplike areas or structures. Latin, from "calyx" (from Ancient Greek "κάλυξ, "case of a bud, husk"). The spicules containing the basal portion of the upper tentacular part of the polyp of some soft corals (also called "calice"). A body part of the Entoprocta from which tentacles arise and the mouth and anus are located. The body disk that is covered with a leathery tegumen containing calcareous plates (in crinoids and ophiuroids the main part of the body where the viscera are located). Either a minor calyx in the