Silene latifoliaPoir.

white campion

WFO wfo-0000440842 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h

Silene latifolia, photographed by Erik Schiff
fig. a Erik Schiff, CC0 1.0 / 2022-06-11 / obs. 205830927
Silene latifolia, photographed by Ryan Sorrells
fig. b Ryan Sorrells, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 205673011
Silene latifolia, photographed by Юрий Данилевский (Yuriy Danilevsky)
fig. c Юрий Данилевский (Yuriy Danilevsky), CC BY 4.0 / obs. 205709394
Silene latifolia, photographed by Brian Finzel
fig. d Brian Finzel, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 205427993
Silene latifolia, photographed by E. A.
fig. e E. A., CC BY 4.0 / obs. 204589895
Silene latifolia, photographed by Tony Rebelo
fig. f Tony Rebelo, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 31098976
Silene latifolia, photographed by John Kenrick Gibson
fig. g John Kenrick Gibson, CC0 1.0 / obs. 205391618
Silene latifolia, photographed by Pete Bradshaw
fig. h Pete Bradshaw, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 204824766

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Flowering n = 10,304 observations

Peak flowering in Jun, from 10,304 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 19 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.

  • Lychnis alba Mill.
  • Lychnis divaricata Rchb.
  • Lychnis loveae B.Boivin
  • Lychnis macrocarpa Boiss. & Reut.
  • Lychnis pratensis Spreng.
  • Lychnis vespertina Sibth.
  • Melandrium album (Mill.) Garcke
  • Melandrium boissieri Schischkin
  • Melandrium dioicum subsp. album (Mill.) D.Löve
  • Melandrium eriocalycinum Boiss.
  • Melandrium latifolium (Poir.) Maire
  • Melandrium marizianum Gand.
  • Silene alba (Mill.) E.H.L.Krause
  • Silene alba subsp. divaricata (Rchb.) Walters
  • Silene alba subsp. mariziana (Gand.) Franco
  • Silene latifolia subsp. latifolia
  • Silene macrocarpa (Boiss. & Reut.) E.H.L.Krause
  • Silene pratensis (Rafn) Godr.
  • Silene pratensis subsp. divaricata (Rchb.) McNeill & H.C.Prent.

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.