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Silene coronaria

Self-sown plant in a Whanganui garden with purple-pink flower.<br>Photographer: Colin C. Ogle, Date taken: 12/11/2016, Licence: <a target='_blank' href='https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0'>CC BY-NC</a>. <a class='member-message' href='/nzpcn/why-join-nzpcn/' target='_blank'>Members can view a larger version of this image.</a>

Self-sown plant in a Whanganui garden; leaf underside.<br>Photographer: Colin C. Ogle, Date taken: 12/11/2016, Licence: <a target='_blank' href='https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0'>CC BY-NC</a>. <a class='member-message' href='/nzpcn/why-join-nzpcn/' target='_blank'>Members can view a larger version of this image.</a>

Self-sown plant in a Whanganui garden; stem node, leaf upper surfaces.<br>Photographer: Colin C. Ogle, Date taken: 12/11/2016, Licence: <a target='_blank' href='https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0'>CC BY-NC</a>. <a class='member-message' href='/nzpcn/why-join-nzpcn/' target='_blank'>Members can view a larger version of this image.</a>

Self-sown plant in a Whanganui garden, centre of purple-pink flower showing coronal scales.<br>Photographer: Colin C. Ogle, Date taken: 12/11/2016, Licence: <a target='_blank' href='https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0'>CC BY-NC</a>. <a class='member-message' href='/nzpcn/why-join-nzpcn/' target='_blank'>Members can view a larger version of this image.</a>

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Common names

rose campion

Biostatus

Exotic

Structural class

Herbs - Dicotyledons other than Composites

Flower colours

Red/Pink, Violet/Purple, White

Detailed description

A clump forming perennial. The whole plant is densely covered in long woolly silvery hairs. Flowering stems erect 30 - 100cm tall. Lower leaves are loosely tufted and oblanceolate in shape tapering to long stalk; 10-25cm long by 2-4 cm wide. Purplish pink or white, flowers are borne in panicles on branching grey stems between December and February.

Similar taxa

Woolly silvery hairs distinguish rose campion from other Silene spp. in N.Z. (Webb et al. 1988)

Conservation status

Not applicable

Detailed taxonomy

Family

Caryophyllaceae

Authority

Silene coronaria (L.) Clairv.

Synonyms

Agrostemma coronaria L., Lychnis coronaria (L.) Desr.

Ecology

Year naturalised

1878

Origin

S.E. and C. Europe, N.W. Africa, Asia Minor

Reason for introduction

Ornamental

Other information

NVS code

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SILCOR

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