| Taxon | Silene verecunda |
| group | Eudicots |
| Family | Caryophyllaceae |
| Family common name(s) | pink; pinks; chickweed |
| Genus common name(s) | silene |
| Species common name(s) | San Francisco campion; San Francisco catchfly; Mission Dolores campion; Dolores campion; Dolores catchfly |
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| Common name(s) specific to synonym; taxon noted in brackets | Anderson's campion [subsp. andersonii]; shy campion [subsp. andersonii]; Cuyamaca campion [subsp. platyota]; Cuyamaca pink [subsp. platyota]; typical San Francisco campion [subsp. verecunda]; typical Mission Dolores campion [subsp. verecunda] |
| Common name(s) generally applied to other taxa or multiple taxa | white catchfly, white catch-fly are applied to multiple Silene taxa; campion, wild pink, catchfly, catch-fly, catch fly are applied to multiple Caryophyllaceae taxa; pink, Cupids-daisy are applied taxa in multiple families |
| Common name(s), rejected | not recommended: Cuyamaca Indian pink |
| Notes | Mission Dolores is a place, so the possessives Dolores', Delores's are inappropriate; Delores is an error; Anderson is a proper name, so upper case preferable; Andersons is an error |
| Synonymy: The Jepson Manual (1993), FNA, PLANTS, etc | subsp. andersonii (Clokey) C.L. Hitchc. & Maguire; subsp. platyota (S. Watson) C.L. Hitchc. & Maguire; subsp. verecunda; var. eglandulosa C.L. Hitchc. & Maguire; Silene platyota S. Watson |
