Silene gallicaL.

Small-flowered Catchfly

WFO wfo-0000440573 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h

Silene gallica, photographed by Erin Springinotic
fig. a Erin Springinotic, CC0 1.0 / 2022-06-10 / obs. 205037050
Silene gallica, photographed by Peter Abrahamsen
fig. b Peter Abrahamsen, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 205336078
Silene gallica, photographed by Erin Springinotic
fig. c Erin Springinotic, CC0 1.0 / obs. 205036764
Silene gallica, photographed by Erin Springinotic
fig. d Erin Springinotic, CC0 1.0 / obs. 205036827
Silene gallica, photographed by Jacqueline Jeanne
fig. e Jacqueline Jeanne, CC0 1.0 / obs. 200908953
Silene gallica, photographed by Christian Berg
fig. f Christian Berg, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 198320667
Silene gallica, photographed by Hydrocycler (Elizabeth Dougherty)
fig. g Hydrocycler (Elizabeth Dougherty), CC BY 4.0 / obs. 196571288
Silene gallica, photographed by Mehdi Chetibi
fig. h Mehdi Chetibi, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 197062549

Every figure is a research-grade observation under CC0, CC BY or CC BY-SA, rehosted with the photographer’s name, the licence and the observation it came from. Photographs under a NonCommercial licence are excluded from this site and are never stored, which costs us a great many pictures and is not negotiable.

Flowering n = 2,746 observations

Peak flowering in Apr, from 2,746 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 17 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.

  • Corone gallica Fourr.
  • Corone quinquevulnera Hoffmanns. ex Steud.
  • Cucubalus sylvestris Lam.
  • Cucubalus variegatus Lam.
  • Lychnis cerastoides Scop.
  • Silene anglica L.
  • Silene cerastoides L.
  • Silene chilensis Cham. & Schltdl. ex Rohrb.
  • Silene gallica f. gallica
  • Silene gallica f. quinquevulnera (L.) W.D.J.Koch
  • Silene gallica subsp. anglica (L.) Á.Löve & D.Löve
  • Silene gallica subsp. chermezonis Sennen
  • Silene gallica var. chermezonis Sennen
  • Silene giraldii Guss.
  • Silene linophila Rothm.
  • Silene quinquevulnera L.
  • Silene transtagana Cout.

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.