White campion
Prepared by Jennifer L. D’Appollonio, Assistant Scientist, University of Maine, Orono, ME 04469. Updated February 2018.
Scientific name: Silene latifolia Poir. ssp. alba (P. Mill.) Grueter & Burdet; also Silene alba Mill. Krause
Common name(s): white campion, bladder campion
Links: USDA PLANTS Profile, Go Botany
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- in flower, mid-June
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- leaf detail
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- hairy inflorescence
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- flower detail
Description:
– annual/occasionally biennial or short-lived perennial
-forb/herb
-leaves are
- simple
- opposite
- entire
– may hybridize with S. dioica where they overlap in New England; see Go Botany webpage
Habitat:
-man-made disturbed land
-meadows
-fields
Natural History:
-native to Europe
Source(s):
Haines, A., Farnsworth, E., Morrison, G., & New England Wild Flower Society. (2011). New England Wildflower Society’s Flora Novae Angliae: A manual for the identification of native and naturalized higher vascular plants of New England. Framingham, MA: New England Wild Flower Society. p. 519.
Go Botany. “Silene Latifolia Poir.” Silene Latifolia (White Campion): Go Botany, 2021, gobotany.nativeplanttrust.org/species/silene/latifolia/.