Bladder Campion
Silene vulgaris (Moench) Garcke
- light
- Full sun
- water
- Medium
- tall
- 61 cm
- wide
- —
Caryophyllaceae
Also called Bladder campion, Maidenstears
Formerly Behen oleraceum, Behen vulgaris, Behenantha behen, Cucubalus behen, and 3 more
When it flowers
Not known yet in the tropics: too few flowering observations to read a season from.
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Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- PerennialKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- TemperateKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- Temp. Eurasia, Macaronesia, N. AfricaKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun (6 h or more)Read from Plants for a Future, one source
- Height
- 61 cmRead from Wikipedia and Plants for a Future, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources. Sources differ: Wikipedia 60–60 cm; Plants for a Future 0.6–0.6 m
- Water
- Average: moist, well drainedRead from Plants for a Future, one source
- Coldest it survives
- -28.9 °C (USDA zone 5a)Read from Plants for a Future, one source
Not known yet: spread, flowers, heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (12)
- Asturian
- restallón
- Chinese
- 白玉草
- Simplified Chinese
- 白玉草
- Czech
- silenka nadmutá
- German
- Gemeines Leimkraut, Gewöhnliches Leimkraut
- Spanish
- Alcadicea, Ben blanco
- Finnish
- nurmikohokki
- French
- silène enflé, Silène enflèe
- Dutch
- blaassilene, Blaassilene
- Occitan
- crasinèu, crelhon, cresilhon
- Romanian
- gușa-porumbelului
- Slovenian
- pokalica
Where this comes from
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- Plants for a Future, read 2026-10-26, fact, cited
- Wikipedia, read 2026-10-26, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA 3.0
- 3D model: Silene vulgaris (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
A fact “checked by a majority of its sources” was settled by a vote of the pages it was read from, not by a person reading it; one marked “one source” rests on that page alone. Anything else not marked checked has not been checked yet. Where nothing is known, the page says so rather than guess.