Silene repensPatrin

pink campion

WFO wfo-0000439777 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Silene repens, photographed by Syd Cannings
fig. a Syd Cannings, CC BY 4.0 / 2019-07-28 / obs. 47280726
Silene repens, photographed by Syd Cannings
fig. b Syd Cannings, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 21283842
Silene repens, photographed by Yoshimasa Uchiyama
fig. c Yoshimasa Uchiyama, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 56462762
Silene repens, photographed by Syd Cannings
fig. d Syd Cannings, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 152848275
Silene repens, photographed by Syd Cannings
fig. e Syd Cannings, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 144037398
Silene repens, photographed by Oleg Kosterin
fig. f Oleg Kosterin, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 170088327
Silene repens, photographed by Viola Alekseeva
fig. g Viola Alekseeva, CC0 1.0 / obs. 81362040
Silene repens, photographed by Repina Tatyana
fig. h Repina Tatyana, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 85180636

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Native range 35 botanical countries

Regions where Silene repens is native: Altay, Amur, Buryatiya, China North-Central, China South-Central, Chita, Inner Mongolia, Irkutsk, Japan, Kamchatka, Kazakhstan, Khabarovsk, Korea, Krasnoyarsk, Kuril Is., Magadan, Manchuria, Mongolia, Primorye, Sakhalin, Tibet, Tuva, West Siberia, Yakutiya, East European Russia, North European Russia, South European Russia, Alaska, British Columbia, Idaho, Montana, Northwest Territories, Washington, Wyoming, Yukon AltayAmurBuryatiyaChina North-CentralChina South-CentralChitaInner MongoliaIrkutskJapanKamchatkaKazakhstanKhabarovskKrasnoyarskMagadanManchuriaMongoliaPrimoryeSakhalinTibetTuvaWest SiberiaYakutiyaEast European RussiaNorth European RussiaSouth European RussiaAlaskaBritish ColumbiaIdahoMontanaNorthwest TerritoriesWashingtonWyomingYukon Korea
Native distribution of Silene repens, 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
Altay ALT ASIA-TEMPERATE
Amur AMU
Buryatiya BRY
China North-Central CHN
China South-Central CHC
Chita CTA
Inner Mongolia CHI
Irkutsk IRK
Japan JAP
Kamchatka KAM
Kazakhstan KAZ
Khabarovsk KHA
Korea KOR
Krasnoyarsk KRA
Kuril Is. KUR
Magadan MAG
Manchuria CHM
Mongolia MON
Primorye PRM
Sakhalin SAK
Tibet CHT
Tuva TVA
West Siberia WSB
Yakutiya YAK
Alaska ASK NORTHERN AMERICA
British Columbia BRC
Idaho IDA
Montana MNT
Northwest Territories NWT
Washington WAS
Wyoming WYO
Yukon YUK
East European Russia RUE EUROPE
North European Russia RUN
South European Russia RUS

Not drawn on the map: Kuril Is.. 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.

Where it actually grows measured, from 216 observations

Condition 5th percentile Median 95th percentile
Coldest month, mean daily low -29.4 °C -24.5 °C -17.3 °C
Warmest month, mean daily high 14.0 °C 19.5 °C 24.2 °C
Annual rainfall 222 mm 426 mm 963 mm
Rainfall in the driest quarter 7 mm 35 mm 141 mm

It is found where winters are arctic. This is not care advice and it is not a forecast. It is a measurement: we sampled the climate at every one of the 216 research-grade observations of Silene repens that carry a coordinate, and this is the range those places actually span. The 5th and 95th percentiles are used rather than the minimum and maximum, because a single cultivated specimen in a heated conservatory should not widen a tropical plant's range to the Arctic.

This is not a hardiness zone. A USDA zone is the average annual extreme minimum temperature. The figure above is the mean daily minimum of the coldest month, which is a different quantity and is typically far warmer. Reading one as the other would place a plant several zones too warm, so we do not publish a hardiness zone, because we do not have one.

Also published as 18 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 congestus Willd. ex Cham. & Schltdl.
  • Silene pachyrrhiza Franch.
  • Silene purpurata Greene
  • Silene repens f. sinensis F.N.Williams
  • Silene repens subsp. australis C.L.Hitchc. & Maguire
  • Silene repens subsp. purpurata (Greene) C.L.Hitchc. & Maguire
  • Silene repens subsp. repens
  • Silene repens var. angustifolia Turcz.
  • Silene repens var. australis (C.L.Hitchc. & Maguire) C.L.Hitchc.
  • Silene repens var. costata (F.N.Williams) B.Boivin
  • Silene repens var. glandulosa Y.W.Cui & L.H.Zhou
  • Silene repens var. latifolia Turcz.
  • Silene repens var. repens
  • Silene repens var. sinensis (F.N.Williams) C.L.Tang
  • Silene repens var. typica Regel
  • Silene repens var. vulgaris Turcz.
  • Silene repens var. xilingensis Y.Z.Zhao
  • Silene scouleri var. costata F.N.Williams

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.