Native North American Silene (L.) Occurrences Filtered from GBIF

This is a dataset including all Native <em>Silene</em> species accepted in taxonomic nomenclature and considered to inhabit the North American range. Data was downloaded using rgbif::occ_download and accessed from R via rgbif (https://github.com/ropensci/rgbif) on 2023-03-29. The original unfiltered GBIF occurrences can be download at https://doi.org/10.15468/dl.g89y2y, and https://api.gbif.org/v1/occurrence/download/request/0128277-230224095556074.zip. The data is filtered to have coordinates in North America, no geospatial issues, no spatial duplicates filtered to the infraspecific epithet, no coordinate uncertainty greater than 100000 meters, and no occurrences lying within 1km of a college or university. This dataset is incomplete as it does not include ALL observations that occur in North American countries as observations lacking a continent field of "north_america" in GBIF are not included.