Silene nocturnaL.

WFO wfo-0000440805 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Silene nocturna, photographed by Eleftherios Katsillis
fig. a Eleftherios Katsillis, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-04-29 / obs. 191770463
Silene nocturna, photographed by Eleftherios Katsillis
fig. b Eleftherios Katsillis, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 189442307
Silene nocturna, photographed by Yves Bas
fig. c Yves Bas, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 157783327
Silene nocturna, photographed by Karim Haddad
fig. d Karim Haddad, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 122432958
Silene nocturna, photographed by Eleftherios Katsillis
fig. e Eleftherios Katsillis, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 117387926
Silene nocturna, photographed by Daniel Cahen
fig. f Daniel Cahen, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 36330016
Silene nocturna, photographed by Yves Bas
fig. g Yves Bas, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 189191629
Silene nocturna, photographed by Karim Haddad
fig. h Karim Haddad, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 141502047

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Native range 28 botanical countries

Regions where Silene nocturna is native: Algeria, Canary Is., Egypt, Libya, Madeira, Morocco, Tunisia, Cyprus, East Aegean Is., Lebanon-Syria, Palestine, Saudi Arabia, Sinai, Transcaucasus, Türkiye, Albania, Baleares, Corse, France, Greece, Italy, Kriti, NW. Balkan Pen., Portugal, Sardegna, Sicilia, Spain, Türkiye-in-Europe AlgeriaEgyptLibyaMoroccoTunisiaCyprusEast Aegean Is.Lebanon-SyriaPalestineSaudi ArabiaSinaiTranscaucasusTürkiyeAlbaniaCorseFranceGreeceItalyKritiNW. Balkan Pen.PortugalSiciliaSpainTürkiye-in-Europe Canary Is.MadeiraBalearesSardegna
Native distribution of Silene nocturna, 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
Albania ALB EUROPE
Baleares BAL
Corse COR
France FRA
Greece GRC
Italy ITA
Kriti KRI
NW. Balkan Pen. YUG
Portugal POR
Sardegna SAR
Sicilia SIC
Spain SPA
Türkiye-in-Europe TUE
Cyprus CYP ASIA-TEMPERATE
East Aegean Is. EAI
Lebanon-Syria LBS
Palestine PAL
Saudi Arabia SAU
Sinai SIN
Transcaucasus TCS
Türkiye TUR
Algeria ALG AFRICA
Canary Is. CNY
Egypt EGY
Libya LBY
Madeira MDR
Morocco MOR
Tunisia TUN

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.

Flowering 73 in flower of 109 examined

Peak flowering in Apr. Each bar is the share of Silene nocturna observations in which someone actually recorded the reproductive state and found the plant in flower, not the raw number of flowering records. That distinction matters: people observe plants far more in spring than in winter, so a bare count of flowering records partly measures when people go outside. Dividing by the number examined removes that. 73 of 109 examined observations were in flower, every one of them research grade. The whisker on each bar is a 95% Wilson interval. 7 months have fewer than 5 examined observations, so no proportion is drawn for them. This is still a global aggregate and not a forecast for your garden: the same species flowers on different dates in different hemispheres. Where a species has fewer than 30 flowering records we do not draw this chart at all. Computed from 10.15468/dl.cgje2x.

Also published as 10 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 nocturna Fourr.
  • Cucubalus reflexus L.
  • Cucubalus spicatus Lam.
  • Silene boullui (Rouy & Fouc.) Kerguélen
  • Silene brachypetala Robill. & Castagne ex DC.
  • Silene mirabilis subsp. boullui Rouy & Foucaud
  • Silene neglecta Ten.
  • Silene nocturna subsp. boullui (Rouy & Foucaud) Gamisans
  • Silene nocturna var. genuina Gren. & Godr.
  • Silene reflexa (L.) W.T.Aiton

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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