Silene muscipulaL.

WFO wfo-0000440676 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 3 observations

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 3 times, so some figures below are different views of the same plant, taken on the same day, rather than different individuals. They are usually different parts of it: the leaf, the flower, the bark.

Silene muscipula, photographed by Mehdi Chetibi
fig. a Mehdi Chetibi, CC BY 4.0 / 2021-05-26 / obs. 131834440
Silene muscipula, photographed by Mehdi Chetibi
fig. b Mehdi Chetibi, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 201857858
Silene muscipula, photographed by Mehdi Chetibi
fig. c Mehdi Chetibi, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 131834459
Silene muscipula, photographed by Mehdi Chetibi
fig. d Mehdi Chetibi, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 201857907
Silene muscipula, photographed by Mehdi Chetibi
fig. e Mehdi Chetibi, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 201857954
Silene muscipula, photographed by Mehdi Chetibi
fig. f Mehdi Chetibi, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 131834475
Silene muscipula, photographed by Joan C. Hinojosa
fig. g Joan C. Hinojosa, CC0 1.0 / obs. 126338305
Silene muscipula, photographed by Joan C. Hinojosa
fig. h Joan C. Hinojosa, CC0 1.0 / obs. 126338336

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Native range 13 botanical countries

Regions where Silene muscipula is native: Algeria, Canary Is., Libya, Morocco, Tunisia, Western Sahara, Lebanon-Syria, Palestine, Baleares, France, Italy, Portugal, Spain AlgeriaLibyaMoroccoTunisiaWestern SaharaLebanon-SyriaPalestineFranceItalyPortugalSpain Canary Is.Baleares
Native distribution of Silene muscipula, 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
Algeria ALG AFRICA
Canary Is. CNY
Libya LBY
Morocco MOR
Tunisia TUN
Western Sahara WSA
Baleares BAL EUROPE
France FRA
Italy ITA
Portugal POR
Spain SPA
Lebanon-Syria LBS ASIA-TEMPERATE
Palestine PAL

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.

Also published as 4 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.

  • Cucubalus dichotomus Lam.
  • Ebraxis muscipula (L.) Tzvelev
  • Silene arvensis Loscos
  • Silene corymbifera Bertol.

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.

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