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Silene dichotoma
Also called Branching Campion, Dichotoma Silene, Forking Catchfly, Two Branch Catchfly
Forked catchfly is an annual weed-like herb from Eurasia, grown mostly as a wildflower or naturalised weed rather than a garden favourite. It thrives in poor, disturbed, sunny ground and needs little care once established.
Silene dichotoma is a species of flowering plant in the family Caryophyllaceae known by the common name forked catchfly. It is native to Eurasia and it is known in other parts of the temperate world, such as sections of North America, where it is a weed that grows in disturbed habitat. It is an annual herb growing up to 80 centimeters tall. The lance-shaped leaves are up to 8 centimeters long on the lower stem and are smaller higher up. Each flower is encapsulated in an inflated calyx of sepals lined with ten veins. It is open at the tip, revealing five white to red petals, each with two lobes and sometimes taking a curled form.
Moss campion · Pink Family · Silene banksia · Maltese-cross · Silene cognata · Weed silene · Crown-pink · Ragged Robin · Silene flos-jovis · Common catchfly · Bladder campion · Nightflowering silene
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Silene dichotoma by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
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.
