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Balkan catchfly

Silene csereii

Also called Balkan campion, Biennial Campion, Smooth Catchfly, Csere's Pink, European Catchfly, Biennial Catchfly, Glaucous Campion

Balkan catchfly
Photo: (c) David McCorquodale, some rights reserved (CC BY), CC BY 4.0
Family
Caryophyllaceae (Pink & carnation family)
Grows as
Annual
Native range
Bulgaria to Kazakhstan and N. Türkiye
Climate
temperate

About

Silene csereii, the Balkan catchfly, is a species of flowering plant found in countries surrounding the Black Sea and northern Caspian Sea. It is also widely introduced to central Europe, Scandinavia, Britain, southern Canada and the northern United States.

Other Silene plants

Moss campion · Silene acutifolia · Egyptian Campion · Silene akaisialpina · Kamalo Gulch catchfly · Pink Family · Silene amoena · Silene andicola · Silene andryalifolia · Sleepy silene · Naked catchfly · Silene apetala

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Silene csereii by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.

Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.

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