Family: Caryophyllaceae
Silene gallica
Citation:
L., Sp. Pl. 417 (1753).
Synonymy: S. anglica L., Sp. Pl. 416 (1753).
Common name: French catchfly.
Description:
Annual, stems to c. 75 cm high, erect, branched, covered with glandular often very sticky hairs; lower leaves c. 5 cm long, c. 1.5 cm wide, hispid to pilose, oblong-spathulate tapering gradually towards the petiole, the upper lanceolate.
Flowers erect, in raceme-like more or less 1-sided cymes; bracts herbaceous, much longer than the short pedicels.
Fruiting calyx c. 10 mm long, cylindrical, ovoid to broad-ellipsoid, contracted at the summit, 10-nerved, hispid, with linear-triangular teeth; petals entire or notched, pink or white with or without a basal red blotch; styles 3; capsules 6-9 mm long, ovoid, with a very short carpophore; seeds c. 0.8 mm long, dark-brown.
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Conservation status:
naturalised
Flowering time: No flowering time is available |
SA Distribution Map based
on current data relating to
specimens held in the
State Herbarium of South Australia
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Biology:
No text
Taxonomic notes:
Two varieties have been recorded in S.Aust.
Key to Infraspecific taxa:
Author:
Not yet available
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