Ragged-robin
Silene flos-cuculi (L.) Greuter & Burdet
- light
- —
- water
- —
- tall
- 60 cm
- wide
- —
Caryophyllaceae
Also called Cuckooflower, Ragged robin, Crow-flower, Carpiog y gors
Formerly Agrostemma flos-cuculi, Coccyganthe flos-cuculi, Coronaria flos-cuculi, Lychnis flos-cuculi, and 1 more
When it flowers
Not known yet in the tropics: too few flowering observations to read a season from.
Read from iNaturalist photographs of it in flower. A month counts at 50% of the best month's flowering share (smoothed over three months) and 10% of its flowering count, from at least 100 flowering observations in the band.
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Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- Annual or perennialKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- TemperateKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- Europe to Siberia and N. CaucasusKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Height
- 30 cm to 89 cmRead from Wikipedia, one source
- Flowers
- PinkRead from Wikipedia, one source
Not known yet: light, spread, water, coldest it survives, heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (12)
- Danish
- trævlekrone
- Czech
- kohoutek luční, kohoutek luční pravý
- German
- Kuckucksblume, Kuckucks-Lichtnelke, Kuckuckslichtnelke
- Dutch
- echte koekoeksbloem
- French
- Lychnis fleur-de-coucou
- root
- LYCFLO, reyðakkuleya, Plúr na cuaiche
- Italian
- crotonella fior di cuculo
- Polish
- firletka poszarpana
- Estonian
- käokann
- Russian
- Кукушкин цвет, горицвет кукушкин
- Norwegian Bokmål
- hanekam
- Hungarian
- Réti kakukkszegfű
Where this comes from
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0 (observation counts)
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- Wikipedia, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, CC BY 4.0
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- 3D model: Silene flos-cuculi (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
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