🐾 white campion

Silene latifolia · wildlife atlas entry

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Silene latifolia (formerly Melandrium album ), the white campion is a dioecious flowering plant in the family Caryophyllaceae, native to most of Europe, Western Asia and Northern Africa. It is a herbaceous annual, occasionally biennial or a short-lived perennial plant, growing to between 40–80 centimetres tall. It is also known in the US as bladder campion but should not be confused with Silene vulgaris , which is more generally called bladder campion. Text: Wikipedia, CC BY-SA.

white campion — reference photo from iNaturalist — (c) quandary, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC) · cc-by-nc

Record card

Scientific name	Silene latifolia
Rank	species
Community observations	127,336 research-grade records on iNaturalist

Classification

kingdom Plantae › phylum Tracheophyta › class Magnoliopsida › order Caryophyllales › family Caryophyllaceae

Seen in the wild — community photographs

white campion photograph by the iNaturalist community — 2026-10-23 · Parc National du Mercantour, Breil-sur-Roya, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, FR
(c) debk, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC) · cc-by-nc

white campion photograph by the iNaturalist community — 2026-10-23 · Минеральные Воды, Ставропольский край, Россия
(c) Andreas-KMV, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC) · cc-by-nc

white campion photograph by the iNaturalist community — 2026-10-23 · 7-й муниципальный округ Санкт-Петербурга, Санкт-Петербург, Россия
(c) Анна Мазур, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC) · cc-by-nc

white campion photograph by the iNaturalist community — 2026-10-17 · Twickenham, UK
(c) Arthur Gelling, some rights reserved (CC BY) · cc-by

white campion photograph by the iNaturalist community — 2026-10-23 · Sinsheim
(c) tvogt, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC) · cc-by-nc

white campion photograph by the iNaturalist community — 2026-09-14 · Mladá Boleslav, Středočeský, Czechia
(c) Petr Harant, some rights reserved (CC BY) · cc-by

white campion photograph by the iNaturalist community — 2026-10-23 · Тюмень, Тюменская обл., Россия, 625000
(c) Елена Левкина, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC) · cc-by-nc

white campion photograph by the iNaturalist community — 2016-05-18 · 48500 La Canourgue, France
(c) Sofiane Lemieuvre, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC) · cc-by-nc

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