Silene behenL.

WFO wfo-0000438854 Accepted WFO 2026-06 5 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–e · 1 observation

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 1 time, so some figures below are different views of the same plant, taken on the same day, rather than different individuals. They are usually different parts of it: the leaf, the flower, the bark.

Silene behen, photographed by Eleftherios Katsillis
fig. a Eleftherios Katsillis, CC BY 4.0 / 2021-04-17 / obs. 121395859
Silene behen, photographed by Eleftherios Katsillis
fig. b Eleftherios Katsillis, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 121395926
Silene behen, photographed by Eleftherios Katsillis
fig. c Eleftherios Katsillis, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 121396035
Silene behen, photographed by Eleftherios Katsillis
fig. d Eleftherios Katsillis, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 121396141
Silene behen, photographed by Eleftherios Katsillis
fig. e Eleftherios Katsillis, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 121396212

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Native range 18 botanical countries

Regions where Silene behen is native: Algeria, Canary Is., Egypt, Libya, Madeira, Morocco, Cyprus, East Aegean Is., Lebanon-Syria, Palestine, Sinai, Türkiye, Greece, Italy, Kriti, Sicilia, Spain, Türkiye-in-Europe AlgeriaEgyptLibyaMoroccoCyprusEast Aegean Is.Lebanon-SyriaPalestineSinaiTürkiyeGreeceItalyKritiSiciliaSpainTürkiye-in-Europe Canary Is.Madeira
Native distribution of Silene behen, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows. Regions too small to draw at this scale are marked with a dot.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Algeria ALG AFRICA
Canary Is. CNY
Egypt EGY
Libya LBY
Madeira MDR
Morocco MOR
Cyprus CYP ASIA-TEMPERATE
East Aegean Is. EAI
Lebanon-Syria LBS
Palestine PAL
Sinai SIN
Türkiye TUR
Greece GRC EUROPE
Italy ITA
Kriti KRI
Sicilia SIC
Spain SPA
Türkiye-in-Europe TUE

Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.

Also published as 5 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Ebraxis behen (L.) Tzvelev
  • Oberna carpatica (Zapał.) Czerep.
  • Silene carpatica Zapal.
  • Silene reinholdii Heldr.
  • Silene venosa var. carpatica Zapal.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
  3. Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice and no toxicity claim, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.