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Silene keiskei is a small perennial in the pink family, native to high mountains of Honshu, Japan. It needs cool conditions, good drainage and full sun to grow well.
Silene keiskei is a species of flowering plant in the family Caryophyllaceae. The species is native to Japan (Honshu). It grows in temperate climates and in the high mountains.
The species was first described and the name by Friedrich Anton Wilhelm Miquel but in 1936 it was reclassified by Jisaburo Ohwi. Plants in this species can grow up to 10 to 30 cm.
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 keiskei 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.
