Common name:
White campion
Family:
Scientific name:
Silene latifolia
Main flower color:
Range:
All of the UK
Height:
Up to 100 cm
Habitat:
Grassland, waste ground, fields
Flowers:
Up to 30 mm in diameter, with a tubular, greenish corolla and five white, spreading, deeply notched lobes. When mature, the corolla tube extends some way above the calyx, which is pale green, ridged (the ridges often purplish), and hairy. Flowers are solitary or paired, at the branches of the inflorescence, and are dioecious, containing either pistils or stamens
Leaves:
Opposite, ovate, up to 10 cm long, covered by short hairs
Season:
May to October
Rarity:
★★★★★
