Silene wolgensis(Hornem.) Otth

WFO wfo-0000439933 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Silene wolgensis, photographed by Galyna Mykytynets
fig. a Galyna Mykytynets, CC BY 4.0 / 2021-06-21 / obs. 173745483
Silene wolgensis, photographed by Dmitriy Bochkov
fig. b Dmitriy Bochkov, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 80959567
Silene wolgensis, photographed by Konstantin Grebennikov
fig. c Konstantin Grebennikov, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 100092572
Silene wolgensis, photographed by Galyna Mykytynets
fig. d Galyna Mykytynets, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 173744912
Silene wolgensis, photographed by Dmitriy Bochkov
fig. e Dmitriy Bochkov, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 158329880
Silene wolgensis, photographed by Dmitriy Bochkov
fig. f Dmitriy Bochkov, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 87001896
Silene wolgensis, photographed by Силаева Татьяна Борисовна
fig. g Силаева Татьяна Борисовна, CC0 1.0 / obs. 82145222
Silene wolgensis, photographed by Svetlana Polevova
fig. h Svetlana Polevova, CC0 1.0 / obs. 73716419

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Native range 13 botanical countries

Regions where Silene wolgensis is native: Altay, Kazakhstan, Kirgizstan, Mongolia, North Caucasus, Turkmenistan, West Siberia, Xinjiang, Bulgaria, East European Russia, Krym, South European Russia, Ukraine AltayKazakhstanKirgizstanMongoliaNorth CaucasusTurkmenistanWest SiberiaXinjiangBulgariaEast European RussiaKrymSouth European RussiaUkraine
Native distribution of Silene wolgensis, 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
Kirgizstan KGZ
Mongolia MON
North Caucasus NCS
Turkmenistan TKM
West Siberia WSB
Xinjiang CHX
Bulgaria BUL EUROPE
East European Russia RUE
Krym KRY
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.

Where it actually grows measured, from 507 observations

Condition 5th percentile Median 95th percentile
Coldest month, mean daily low -16.9 °C -11.7 °C -5.5 °C
Warmest month, mean daily high 24.9 °C 26.4 °C 30.5 °C
Annual rainfall 298 mm 485 mm 582 mm
Rainfall in the driest quarter 54 mm 93 mm 118 mm

It is found where winters are severely cold. This is not care advice and it is not a forecast. It is a measurement: we sampled the climate at every one of the 507 research-grade observations of Silene wolgensis 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 8 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 wolgensis Willd.
  • Otites jenissensis Klokov
  • Otites orae-syvashicae Klokov
  • Otites wolgensis (Hornem.) Grossh.
  • Silene densiflora var. wolgensis Jordanov & Panov
  • Silene otites var. wolgensis (Hornem.) Rohrb.
  • Silene wolgensis Besser ex Spreng.
  • Viscago wolgensis 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. 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.