Silene sibiricaPers.

Siberian catchfly

WFO wfo-0000439623 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 6 observations

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 6 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 sibirica, photographed by Силаева Татьяна Борисовна
fig. a Силаева Татьяна Борисовна, CC0 1.0 / 2021-07-27 / obs. 146981159
Silene sibirica, photographed by Силаева Татьяна Борисовна
fig. b Силаева Татьяна Борисовна, CC0 1.0 / obs. 96985178
Silene sibirica, photographed by Вячеслав Пискарев
fig. c Вячеслав Пискарев, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 145515279
Silene sibirica, photographed by Анна Митрошенкова
fig. d Анна Митрошенкова, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 145126651
Silene sibirica, photographed by Силаева Татьяна Борисовна
fig. e Силаева Татьяна Борисовна, CC0 1.0 / obs. 133116596
Silene sibirica, photographed by Oleg Kosterin
fig. f Oleg Kosterin, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 182099828
Silene sibirica, photographed by Силаева Татьяна Борисовна
fig. g Силаева Татьяна Борисовна, CC0 1.0 / obs. 146981169
Silene sibirica, photographed by Вячеслав Пискарев
fig. h Вячеслав Пискарев, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 145515358

Every figure is a research-grade observation under CC0, CC BY or CC BY-SA, rehosted with the photographer’s name, the licence and the observation it came from. Photographs under a NonCommercial licence are excluded from this site and are never stored, which costs us a great many pictures and is not negotiable.

Native range 9 botanical countries

Regions where Silene sibirica is native: Altay, Kazakhstan, Mongolia, West Siberia, Xinjiang, Central European Russia, East European Russia, South European Russia, Ukraine AltayKazakhstanMongoliaWest SiberiaXinjiangCentral European RussiaEast European RussiaSouth European RussiaUkraine
Native distribution of Silene sibirica, 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.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Altay ALT ASIA-TEMPERATE
Kazakhstan KAZ
Mongolia MON
West Siberia WSB
Xinjiang CHX
Central European Russia RUC EUROPE
East European Russia RUE
South European Russia RUS
Ukraine UKR

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 3 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 sibiricus L.
  • Silene holopetala Bunge
  • Viscago sibirica (L.) Hornem.

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.