Silene nutansL.

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WFO wfo-0000440799 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Silene nutans, photographed by Вячеслав Юсупов
fig. a Вячеслав Юсупов, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-06-12 / obs. 205582831
Silene nutans, photographed by Pete Bradshaw
fig. b Pete Bradshaw, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 204828503
Silene nutans, photographed by ll r Ирина
fig. c ll r Ирина, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 205742493
Silene nutans, photographed by Elias
fig. d Elias, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 204158251
Silene nutans, photographed by E. A.
fig. e E. A., CC BY 4.0 / obs. 203142852
Silene nutans, photographed by Mette Vind
fig. f Mette Vind, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 201880073
Silene nutans, photographed by Силаева Татьяна Борисовна
fig. g Силаева Татьяна Борисовна, CC0 1.0 / obs. 203568653
Silene nutans, photographed by Johan Kjær Prehn
fig. h Johan Kjær Prehn, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 203642520

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Native range 38 botanical countries

Regions where Silene nutans is native: Canary Is., Altay, Buryatiya, Irkutsk, Kazakhstan, Krasnoyarsk, North Caucasus, West Siberia, Albania, Austria, Baltic States, Belarus, Belgium, Bulgaria, Central European Russia, Czechia-Slovakia, Denmark, East European Russia, Finland, France, Germany, Great Britain, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Netherlands, North European Russia, Northwest European Russia, Norway, NW. Balkan Pen., Poland, Portugal, Romania, South European Russia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Ukraine AltayBuryatiyaIrkutskKazakhstanKrasnoyarskNorth CaucasusWest SiberiaAlbaniaAustriaBaltic StatesBelarusBelgiumBulgariaCentral European RussiaCzechia-SlovakiaDenmarkEast European RussiaFinlandFranceGermanyGreeceHungaryItalyNetherlandsNorth European RussiaNorthwest European RussiaNorwayNW. Balkan Pen.PolandPortugalRomaniaSouth European RussiaSpainSwedenSwitzerlandUkraine Canary Is.
Native distribution of Silene nutans, 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
Austria AUT
Baltic States BLT
Belarus BLR
Belgium BGM
Bulgaria BUL
Central European Russia RUC
Czechia-Slovakia CZE
Denmark DEN
East European Russia RUE
Finland FIN
France FRA
Germany GER
Great Britain GRB
Greece GRC
Hungary HUN
Italy ITA
Netherlands NET
North European Russia RUN
Northwest European Russia RUW
Norway NOR
NW. Balkan Pen. YUG
Poland POL
Portugal POR
Romania ROM
South European Russia RUS
Spain SPA
Sweden SWE
Switzerland SWI
Ukraine UKR
Altay ALT ASIA-TEMPERATE
Buryatiya BRY
Irkutsk IRK
Kazakhstan KAZ
Krasnoyarsk KRA
North Caucasus NCS
West Siberia WSB
Canary Is. CNY AFRICA

Not drawn on the map: Great Britain. We hold no public-domain boundary for this region, so it is listed rather than guessed at.

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 808 in flower of 902 examined

Peak flowering in Jun. Each bar is the share of Silene nutans 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. 808 of 902 examined observations were in flower, every one of them research grade. The whisker on each bar is a 95% Wilson interval. 3 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 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.

  • Cucubalus nutans Lam.
  • Cucubalus quadrifidus Pollini
  • Cucubalus rubens Roth
  • Silene brachypoda Rouy
  • Silene dubia Herb. ex Rohrb.
  • Silene livida Willd.
  • Silene nutans subsp. livida (Willd.) Jeanm. & Bocquet
  • Silene nutans subsp. smithiana (Moss) Jeanm. & Bocquet
  • Silene nutans var. brachypoda (Rouy) Molero
  • Silene nutans var. livida (Willd.) Otth
  • Silene nutans var. smithiana Moss
  • Silene olgiana B.Fedtsch.

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.