Silene vulgaris(Moench) Garcke

bladder campion

WFO wfo-0000440200 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h

Silene vulgaris, photographed by Michelle Norcéide
fig. a Michelle Norcéide, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-06-13 / obs. 205901021
Silene vulgaris, photographed by Anastasia_Surkova
fig. b Anastasia_Surkova, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 205901613
Silene vulgaris, photographed by Anastasia_Surkova
fig. c Anastasia_Surkova, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 205901538
Silene vulgaris, photographed by Tatiana Strus
fig. d Tatiana Strus, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 205907163
Silene vulgaris, photographed by Alec McClay
fig. e Alec McClay, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 205247482
Silene vulgaris, photographed by Anastasia_Surkova
fig. f Anastasia_Surkova, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 205902226
Silene vulgaris, photographed by Kira Novak
fig. g Kira Novak, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 205619745
Silene vulgaris, photographed by Paul Braun
fig. h Paul Braun, CC0 1.0 / obs. 205149376

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Flowering n = 5,515 observations

Peak flowering in Jun, from 5,515 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 62 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.

  • Behen alpinus (Lam.) Gușul.
  • Behen angustifolius Schott ex Steud.
  • Behen antelopum E.H.L.Krause
  • Behen fabarius Link
  • Behen glareosus Fourr.
  • Behen oleraceum E.H.L.Krause
  • Behen puberulus Fourr.
  • Behen trachiatus Fourr.
  • Behen vesicarium (Schrad. ex Boreau) E.H.L.Krause
  • Behen vesicarius Fourr.
  • Behen vulgaris Moench
  • Behenantha behen (L.) Ikonn.
  • Behenantha glaucescens Schur
  • Behenantha inflata Schur
  • Behenantha saponariifolia Schur
  • Cucubalus alpinus Lam.
  • Cucubalus angustifolius Mill.
  • Cucubalus angustissimus Nocca & Balb.
  • Cucubalus antelopum Vest
  • Cucubalus behen L.
  • Cucubalus inflatus Salisb.
  • Cucubalus latifolius Mill.
  • Cucubalus littoralis Vis.
  • Cucubalus marginatus Schult.

and 38 more.

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.