Silene colorataPoir.

WFO wfo-0000438674 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Silene colorata, photographed by Mehdi Chetibi
fig. a Mehdi Chetibi, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-06-11 / obs. 205498984
Silene colorata, photographed by Jamie Carter
fig. b Jamie Carter, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 199583226
Silene colorata, photographed by davidfdz_b82
fig. c davidfdz_b82, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 193653566
Silene colorata, photographed by scolym
fig. d scolym, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 191930576
Silene colorata, photographed by Mehdi Chetibi
fig. e Mehdi Chetibi, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 190435733
Silene colorata, photographed by Ivo Rosa
fig. f Ivo Rosa, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 188793620
Silene colorata, photographed by davidfdz_b82
fig. g davidfdz_b82, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 188240637
Silene colorata, photographed by Andre Hosper
fig. h Andre Hosper, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 187737086

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Native range 26 botanical countries

Regions where Silene colorata is native: Algeria, Canary Is., Egypt, Libya, Morocco, Tunisia, Cyprus, East Aegean Is., Iran, Iraq, Lebanon-Syria, Palestine, Saudi Arabia, Sinai, Türkiye, Yemen, Albania, Corse, Greece, Italy, Kriti, Portugal, Sardegna, Sicilia, Spain, Türkiye-in-Europe AlgeriaEgyptLibyaMoroccoTunisiaCyprusEast Aegean Is.IranIraqLebanon-SyriaPalestineSaudi ArabiaSinaiTürkiyeYemenAlbaniaCorseGreeceItalyKritiPortugalSiciliaSpainTürkiye-in-Europe Canary Is.Sardegna
Native distribution of Silene colorata, 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
Cyprus CYP ASIA-TEMPERATE
East Aegean Is. EAI
Iran IRN
Iraq IRQ
Lebanon-Syria LBS
Palestine PAL
Saudi Arabia SAU
Sinai SIN
Türkiye TUR
Yemen YEM
Albania ALB EUROPE
Corse COR
Greece GRC
Italy ITA
Kriti KRI
Portugal POR
Sardegna SAR
Sicilia SIC
Spain SPA
Türkiye-in-Europe TUE
Algeria ALG AFRICA
Canary Is. CNY
Egypt EGY
Libya LBY
Morocco MOR
Tunisia TUN

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.

Flowering 448 in flower of 453 examined

Peak flowering in Jan. Each bar is the share of Silene colorata observations in which someone actually recorded the reproductive state and found the plant in flower, not the raw number of flowering records. That distinction matters: people observe plants far more in spring than in winter, so a bare count of flowering records partly measures when people go outside. Dividing by the number examined removes that. 448 of 453 examined observations were in flower, every one of them research grade. The whisker on each bar is a 95% Wilson interval. 5 months have fewer than 5 examined observations, so no proportion is drawn for them. This is still a global aggregate and not a forecast for your garden: the same species flowers on different dates in different hemispheres. Where a species has fewer than 30 flowering records we do not draw this chart at all. Computed from 10.15468/dl.cgje2x.

Also published as 7 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.

  • Silene bipartita Desf.
  • Silene bipartita var. stenophylla Boiss.
  • Silene canescens Ten.
  • Silene colorata subsp. oliveriana (Otth) Rohrb.
  • Silene colorata var. stenophylla (Boiss.) Dinsm.
  • Silene oliveriana Otth
  • Silene pyrenaica Pourr. ex Rohrb.

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.