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Silene flos-cuculi
Also called Meadow Campion
Ragged robin is a hardy perennial wildflower of damp meadows and pastures across Europe and Asia, grown for its ragged pink flowers. It does best in moist, sunny to lightly shaded conditions and is easy to naturalise in wetter garden areas.
Silene flos-cuculi (syn. Lychnis flos-cuculi), the ragged-robin, is a perennial herbaceous plant in the family Caryophyllaceae. It is native to Eurasia and Siberia and has been introduced to North America.
Popular garden cultivars include:
'Alba' – white-flowered form
The species is native to Europe and Asia, where it is found along roads and in wet meadows and pastures. It has also become naturalized in parts of the northern United States and eastern Canada.
Moss campion · Pink Family · Silene banksia · Maltese-cross · Silene cognata · Weed silene · Crown-pink · Forked Catchfly · Silene flos-jovis · Common catchfly · Bladder campion · Nightflowering silene
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Silene flos-cuculi 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.
