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Silene latifolia Poir.
Family Caryophyllaceae
Common name: White Campion

Silene latifolia Poir. APNI*

Description: Erect biennial or perennial herb to 1 m high.

Leaves elliptic to lanceolate or ovate, usually 4–9 cm long, 8–30 mm wide, ± covered with white spreading hairs, upper surface ± glandular.

Inflorescence a dichasial cyme; flowers unisexual. Calyx ovoid to cylindrical, 18–25 mm long, 10-veined, inflated in fruit. Petals deeply bifid, white. Ovary 1-locular.

Capsule cylindrical to obovate, c. 2 cm long, opening by 10 equal teeth.


Herbarium
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Flowering: chiefly summer.

Distribution and occurrence: Weed of pastures and waste ground. Native of Eur. & W Asia.
NSW subdivisions: *NC, *SC, *NT, *CT, *ST
Other Australian states: *Vic.
AVH map***

Text by A. Doust
Taxon concept: Fl. NSW vol. 1 (1990) as S. pratensis

N.S.W. occurrences are: subsp. alba

APNI* Provides a link to the Australian Plant Name Index (hosted by the Australian National Botanic Gardens) for comprehensive bibliographic data
***The AVH map option provides a detailed interactive Australia wide distribution map drawn from collections held by all major Australian herbaria participating in the Australian Virtual Herbarium project.
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