Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

Silene coronaria

Flower. Photographer Barry Breckling, California, USA

Flowering plants. Photographer Michael Wunderli, unknown place

Line drawings. USDA NRCS PLANTS Database. Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913. An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British Possessions. Vol. 2: 71.

Common name

 Rose Campion, Dusty Miller, Crown Pink, Mullein Pink

Family

Caryophyllaceae

Where found

Garden escape. Forest and disturbed sites. Tablelands, ACT, the mountains to the west, and Kosciuszko National Park. Occasionally elsewhere.

Notes

Perennial herb to about 1 m high. Densely white-hairy. Leaves basal and opposite each other, 3–15 cm long, 10–35 mm wide, tomentose, tips pointed,  margins entire. Flowers red to purple, with 5 petals each 12–17 mm long, entire to notched. Flowers in few-flowered clusters. Flowering: spring-summer.

PlantNET description:  http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Silene~coronaria (accessed 7 February, 2021)