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Scientific Name:Silene vulgaris
Bladder Campion plant
Bladder Campion plant
Photo: A J Brown

Status:

Native to Europe and western Asia. Naturalised throughout southern Australia and in New Zealand.

Plant Description:


Bluish-green, hairless
perennial to about 30 cm high, with broadly lanceolate (spear-like) leaves. Flowers with 5 white (rarely violet) petals, on long, often drooping, stalks. Calyx (leafy ring of bracts below the petals) inflated, globular and bladdery with 20-30 nerves. Fruit is an ovoid or oblong capsule, enclosed by the inflated calyx.

Habitat:

A weed of cultivation and waste places. Common along parts of the coast on sand dunes and road sides.

Bladder Campion Photos

Bladder Campion population
Bladder Campion population
Photo: A J Brown
Mature flowers of Bladder Campion
Mature flowers of Bladder Campion
Photo: A J Brown

Flowers with inflated calyx
Flowers with inflated calyx
Photo: A J Brown

Bladder Campion leaves
Bladder Campion leaves
Photo: A J Brown

Bladder Campion calyx
Bladder Campion calyx
Photo: A J Brown

Bladder Campion flowers
Bladder Campion flowers
Photo: A J Brown

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