Silene dichotoma, Ehrh.

Tutin, T. G., Heywood, V. H., Burges, N. A., Moore, D. M., Valentine, D. H., Walters, S. M. & Webb, D. A., 1964, Flora Europaea - Volume 1. Lycopodiaceae to Platanaceae, Cambridge University Press : 178

143. S. dichotoma Ehrh. , Beitr. Naturk. 7: 143 (1792).

Stems 20-100 cm, branched above, puberulent to hispid-pubescent. Lower leaves spathulate to lanceolate; cauline lanceolate. Inflorescence usually with alar flowers; branches 5- to 10-flowered; pedicels all very short; upper bracts small, ovate, scariousmargined. Calyx 7-15 mm, ovoid-oblong in fruit, not inflated, sparsely and shortly pubescent between veins, sparsely hispid on veins; teeth ovate-lanceolate, acute. Petal-limb 7-8 mm, white, rarely pink; filaments and styles very long-exserted. Carpophore 1 - 5-4 mm, very stout, glabrous. Seeds 1 - 1 -1-4 mm, blackishbrown. 2« = 24. Native in E. & S.E. Europe; widely introduced elsewhere. Bu Cr Gr Hu Ju Po Rm Rs (N, C, W, K, E) Tu [Ga Ge He It].