Lychnis sibirica, L.

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 : 157

5. L. sibirica L. , Sp. Pl. 437 (1753) .

Whole plant pubescent with short crispate hairs. Stems 8-30 cm, usually simple. Basal leaves crowded on woody stock, linear-lanceolate; cauline 3-8 pairs, remote. Inflorescence (1-) 3- to 4(-8)-flowered, lax; pedicels mostly longer than calyx. Calyx 5-6(-8) mm. Petal-limb pale yellow or white, bifid to about half-way; coronal scales lanceolate, acute. Capsule 6-8 mm; carpophore very short. Arctic Russia (Pecora estuary). Rs (N). (N. Asia.)

The European plant is subsp. samojedorum Sambuk , Bull. Acad. Sci. URSS ser. 7, 22: 47 (1928) (L. samojedorum (Sambuk) Gorschk.). Subsp. sibirica occurs in Siberia and approaches close to the boundary of Europe N.E. of Sverdlovsk.