Silene coronaria(L.) Clairv.

Rose campion

WFO wfo-0000440513 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h

Silene coronaria, photographed by Alexis Tinker-Tsavalas
fig. a Alexis Tinker-Tsavalas, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-06-11 / obs. 205477262
Silene coronaria, photographed by Yann Kemper
fig. b Yann Kemper, CC0 1.0 / obs. 202497811
Silene coronaria, photographed by Fabian Steeg
fig. c Fabian Steeg, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 203232977
Silene coronaria, photographed by Ryan Sorrells
fig. d Ryan Sorrells, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 203400533
Silene coronaria, photographed by Laura Martin
fig. e Laura Martin, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 196627372
Silene coronaria, photographed by Pavel Kacl
fig. f Pavel Kacl, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 201284749
Silene coronaria, photographed by Violet T.
fig. g Violet T., CC BY 4.0 / obs. 190754353
Silene coronaria, photographed by Pavel Kacl
fig. h Pavel Kacl, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 193873039

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Confused withby our own model

These are not lookalikes we guessed at. Each one is a species our identification model genuinely mistook for this plant, and how many times. The error rate is published.

Flowering n = 1,082 observations

Peak flowering in Jun, from 1,082 community-annotated observations worldwide. This is a global aggregate, not a forecast for your garden: the same species flowers on different dates in different hemispheres, and citizen-science records cluster near cities, at weekends, and in spring. Where a species has fewer than 30 annotated records we do not draw this chart at all.

Also published as 6 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.

  • Agrostemma coronaria L.
  • Agrostemma flos-jovis Pollich
  • Agrostemma grandiflora Döll
  • Coronaria coronaria (L.) Huth
  • Coronaria tomentosa A.Braun
  • Lychnis coronaria (L.) Desr.

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.

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