White campion
Silene latifolia Poir.
- light
- Full sun
- water
- —
- tall
- 60 cm
- wide
- —
Caryophyllaceae
Also called Bladder Campion, Bladder campion, Evening catchfly, White Campion
Formerly Melandrium latifolium
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.
If a child, a pet or anyone may have eaten a plant, contact a doctor or vet straight away, or call the National Poisons Information Centre (AIIMS, New Delhi) on 1800 116 117, free and open 24 hours.
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
- Temp. Eurasia, NW. AfricaKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun (6 h or more)Read from Wikipedia, not yet checkedOne source. Checker: Wikipedia page does not state full: it says sunny areas, without the term full sun
- Height
- 41 cm to 79 cmRead from Wikipedia, one source
- Flowers
- WhiteRead from Wikipedia, one source
Not known yet: spread, water, coldest it survives, heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (12)
- German
- Weiße Lichtnelke, Weisse Waldnelke, Breitblättrige Lichtnelke
- root
- SILLAT, Cascabel, Цагаан шээрэнгэ
- Portuguese
- Assobios
- Italian
- Silene bianca
- French
- compagnon blanc, silène à larges feuilles, Lychnis à grosses graines
- Czech
- silenka širolistá
- Dutch
- avondkoekoeksbloem
- Danish
- Aften-Pragtstjerne
- Estonian
- harilik põisrohi, Valge pusurohi
- Spanish
- colleja
- Swedish
- Vitblära
- Norwegian Bokmål
- kvit jonsokblom, hvit jonsokblom
Where this comes from
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-26, 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-SA 4.0
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-26, CC BY-SA
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-26, CC BY-SA
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-26, CC BY
- 3D model: Silene latifolia (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
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