Family: Caryophyllaceae Genus: SileneSpecies description: Perennial, sometimes caespitose and woody at base; stems up to 60 cm, usually branched, glabruos or pubescent, often glaucous. Leaves ovate to linear. Flowers solitaty or in cymes. Calyx inflated, persistent, loosely investing ripe capsule, 20-veined. Petals large, usually whitish, deeply bifid, with distinct claw and often with coronal scales. Capsule 6-14 mm, usually c. 3 times as long as carpophore. Seeds 1-1.5 mm, with convex back and flat or convex face.
Extremely variable. The taxa here included in S.Vulgaris have been variously treated by different authors. The treatment given below takes into account the large body of experimental and other data summarized in Marsden-Jones & Turrill, Bladdr Campions (1957)
8 subsp.
Field Notes:
Habitat:
Distribution: Throughout Europe. All except Sb (=> Ho) Found: S.Spain: Sierra de la Contaviesa (North of Adra to Motril) Date: 4-5-94 Flora Europea:1-168 Literatuur:Notes: No ssp. established
Pictures: A.Voswinkel, The Netherlands email: aart@knoware.nl