Silene stellataW.T.Aiton

starry campion

WFO wfo-0001291347 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h

Silene stellata, photographed by Robert Webster
fig. a Robert Webster, CC BY-SA 4.0 / 2022-06-12 / obs. 205863981
Silene stellata, photographed by Violet T.
fig. b Violet T., CC BY 4.0 / obs. 200619711
Silene stellata, photographed by the swamp ass
fig. c the swamp ass, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 154834877
Silene stellata, photographed by Ryan Sorrells
fig. d Ryan Sorrells, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 200863867
Silene stellata, photographed by Erin Lalime
fig. e Erin Lalime, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 155460410
Silene stellata, photographed by Daniel Patterson
fig. f Daniel Patterson, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 156911129
Silene stellata, photographed by Nick Doty
fig. g Nick Doty, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 157630825
Silene stellata, photographed by My-Lan Le
fig. h My-Lan Le, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 151200948

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Flowering n = 785 observations

Peak flowering in Jul, from 785 community-annotated observations worldwide. This is a global aggregate, not a forecast for your garden: the same species flowers on different dates in different hemispheres, and citizen-science records cluster near cities, at weekends, and in spring. Where a species has fewer than 30 annotated records we do not draw this chart at all.

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.

  • Silene scabrella (Nieuwl.) G.N.Jones
  • Silene stellata var. scabrella (Nieuwl) E.J.Palmer & Steyerm.
  • Silene stellata var. stellata

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.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice, no toxicity claim and no native range, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.