Silene succulentaForssk.

Catchfly

WFO wfo-0000440131 Accepted WFO 2026-06 5 photographs CC BY / CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–e · 3 observations

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 3 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 succulenta, photographed by Davide Puddu
fig. a Davide Puddu, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-04-04 / obs. 186254019
Silene succulenta, photographed by Grzegorz Grzejszczak
fig. b Grzegorz Grzejszczak, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 64012416
Silene succulenta, photographed by Davide Puddu
fig. c Davide Puddu, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 186254033
Silene succulenta, photographed by Roland Godon
fig. d Roland Godon, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 133513850
Silene succulenta, photographed by Roland Godon
fig. e Roland Godon, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 133513919

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Native range 10 botanical countries

Regions where Silene succulenta is native: Egypt, Libya, Tunisia, Lebanon-Syria, Palestine, Saudi Arabia, Transcaucasus, Corse, Kriti, Sardegna EgyptLibyaTunisiaLebanon-SyriaPalestineSaudi ArabiaTranscaucasusCorseKriti Sardegna
Native distribution of Silene succulenta, 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
Lebanon-Syria LBS ASIA-TEMPERATE
Palestine PAL
Saudi Arabia SAU
Transcaucasus TCS
Egypt EGY AFRICA
Libya LBY
Tunisia TUN
Corse COR EUROPE
Kriti KRI
Sardegna SAR

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.

  • Silene corsica DC.
  • Silene succulenta subsp. corsica (DC.) Nyman
  • Silene succulenta var. eliezeri Eig

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.