Silene drummondiiHook.

Drummond's campion

WFO wfo-0000440605 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Silene drummondii, photographed by Matt Lavin
fig. a Matt Lavin, CC BY 4.0 / 2010-07-06 / obs. 174574682
Silene drummondii, photographed by Matt Berger
fig. b Matt Berger, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 148798836
Silene drummondii, photographed by Matt Berger
fig. c Matt Berger, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 142955298
Silene drummondii, photographed by Eric Lamb
fig. d Eric Lamb, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 85761380
Silene drummondii, photographed by Matt Berger
fig. e Matt Berger, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 82266319
Silene drummondii, photographed by Jared Shorma
fig. f Jared Shorma, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 50081149
Silene drummondii, photographed by Darrin Gobble
fig. g Darrin Gobble, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 204533887
Silene drummondii, photographed by Doug Macaulay
fig. h Doug Macaulay, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 81088119

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Native range 16 botanical countries

Regions where Silene drummondii is native: Alberta, Arizona, British Columbia, Colorado, Idaho, Manitoba, Minnesota, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, North Dakota, Saskatchewan, South Dakota, Utah, Wyoming AlbertaArizonaBritish ColumbiaColoradoIdahoManitobaMinnesotaMontanaNebraskaNevadaNew MexicoNorth DakotaSaskatchewanSouth DakotaUtahWyoming
Native distribution of Silene drummondii, 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.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Alberta ABT NORTHERN AMERICA
Arizona ARI
British Columbia BRC
Colorado COL
Idaho IDA
Manitoba MAN
Minnesota MIN
Montana MNT
Nebraska NEB
Nevada NEV
New Mexico NWM
North Dakota NDA
Saskatchewan SAS
South Dakota SDA
Utah UTA
Wyoming WYO

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.

Where it actually grows measured, from 154 observations

Condition 5th percentile Median 95th percentile
Coldest month, mean daily low -19.2 °C -14.5 °C -9.4 °C
Warmest month, mean daily high 18.4 °C 23.6 °C 27.2 °C
Annual rainfall 330 mm 481 mm 1,155 mm
Rainfall in the driest quarter 32 mm 60 mm 234 mm

It is found where winters are severely cold. This is not care advice and it is not a forecast. It is a measurement: we sampled the climate at every one of the 154 research-grade observations of Silene drummondii that carry a coordinate, and this is the range those places actually span. The 5th and 95th percentiles are used rather than the minimum and maximum, because a single cultivated specimen in a heated conservatory should not widen a tropical plant's range to the Arctic.

This is not a hardiness zone. A USDA zone is the average annual extreme minimum temperature. The figure above is the mean daily minimum of the coldest month, which is a different quantity and is typically far warmer. Reading one as the other would place a plant several zones too warm, so we do not publish a hardiness zone, because we do not have one.

Also published as 12 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.

  • Gastrolychnis drummondii (Hook.) Á.Löve & D.Löve
  • Lychnis drummondii (Hook.) S.Watson
  • Lychnis drummondii var. heterochroma B.Boivin
  • Lychnis drummondii var. striata (Rydb.) Maguire
  • Lychnis pudica B.Boivin
  • Lychnis striata Rydb.
  • Melandrium drummondii (Hook.) A.E.Porsild
  • Silene drummondii subsp. drummondii
  • Silene drummondii var. kruckebergii Bocquet
  • Silene drummondii var. striata (Rydb.) Bocquet
  • Wahlbergella drummondii (Hook.) Rydb.
  • Wahlbergella striata Rydb.

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. Wikidata. common name (P1843), joined on the World Flora Online identifier (P7715). CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-13.
  4. 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.