Your gateway to a wide range of natural resources information and associated maps

Victorian Resources Online

  1. Landform
  2. Land Use
  3. Soil
  4. Land and Water Management
    1. Catchment Management
    2. Invasive Plants
    3. Land Degradation
    4. Irrigated Agriculture
    5. Catchment Hydrology
    6. Salinity Indicator Plants
      1. Common Name
      2. Scientific Name
      3. Common Family Name
      4. Scientific Family Name
      5. Key to Families or Genera
      6. Salinity in the Loddon Murray Region
      7. Salinity in the Central and Northern Victorian Region
      8. Salinity in the Western Region
      9. Salinity in the Wimmera Region
      10. Salinity in the Mallee Region
      11. Salinity in the Gippsland Region
      12. Salinity in the Coastal Region
    7. Salinity Management
    8. Declared Water Supply Catchments

Bladder Campion

Back | Salinity Indicator Plants Home | Common name home | Scientific name home | Photo Gallery | Glossary



Bladder Campion Photos

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

Page top

For information about DJPR please contact:

Phone: 136 186

National Relay Service: 133 677 or relayservice.gov.au

Email: customer.service@ecodev.vic.gov.au

Online: Contact us

Copyright

Privacy

Disclaimer

Accessibility
Department of Jobs, Precincts and Regions - State Government of Victoria

© State of Victoria (Agriculture Victoria) 1996 - .

Creative Commons License

This work, Victorian Resources Online, is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence. You are free to re-use the work under that licence, on the condition that you credit the State of Victoria (Agriculture Victoria) as author, indicate if changes were made and comply with the other licence terms.


The licence does not apply to ‘branding’ or some ‘images or photographs’ that may be owned by third parties. We ask you to seek prior approval to use images using the VRO feedback form. Access to higher quality images can also be provided on request.


This page was last updated on .