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Bayer Code : silvu

Scientific name: Silene vulgaris (Moench) Garcke


Synonym(s) of Sc. name: Silene cucubalas Wibel, Silene inflata Sm., Silene latifolia (Miller)

Classification: Caryophyllaceae, Dicotyledonous

Common name: bladder campion

Synonym(s) of Common name:

Name per country: DE : Gemeines Leimkraut ; ES : colleja ; FR : silène enflée ; IT : silene rigonfia ; PT : erva-traqueira ; EN : bladder campion ; NL : blaassilene ; DK : blære smelde

Biological type: Perennial


Seed snapshot Seed:

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Seedling snapshot Seedling:

- Cotyledons: elliptical to oval with orbicular tip (±) dented.


Adult plant snapshotAdult plant snapshot Adult plant:

- Height 20 to 60 cm. glabrous or pubescent, glaucous very variable.

- Lower leaves in loose rosette, fewer leaves at base. Leaves opposite, oval or lanceolate, glabrous with the principle vein pronounced, blue-green.

- Flowers white, seldom rose; in branched clusters, few per cluster; bracts; small scarious; calyx inflated, bladder-like glabrous, with 20 veins, reticulate, often reddish. Big petals, the blade deeply bifid with 2 coronal scales or swellings at its base.

- Fruits: capsules, ± broadly ovoid; carried by a glaborous carpophore.

- Young shoots can be eaten taste is a cross between asparagus and peas. Sometimes cultivated as ornamental plants. Root used instead of soap.

- Biological type: perennial.


Ecological profile (click on flags): BeneLux   Present     Germany  Rare     Denmark  Rare     Spain  Present     France  Present     Italy  Present     Portugal  Present    

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