EPPO Global Database

Silene latifolia(SILLT)

Overview
Code created in: 1999-08-12

Basic information
  • EPPO Code: SILLT
  • Preferred name: Silene latifolia
  • Authority: Poiret

Notes

Europe and western Mediterranean, Siberia, Russian Far East, Central Asia, Western Asia (Iran, Irak). Introduced in China, Canada (including Greenland), USA (including Alaska), South America (southern cone), New Guinea


Other scientific names
Name Authority
Lychnis divaricata Reichenbach
Lychnis macrocarpa Boissier & Reuter
Lychnis vespertina Sibthorp
Melandrium boissieri Shishkin
Melandrium divaricatum (Reichenbach) Fenzl
Melandrium macrocarpum (Boissier & Reuter) Willkomm
Silene alba subsp. divaricata (Reichenbach) Walters
Silene latifolia subsp. latifolia Poiret

Common names
Name Language
evening lychnis English
spreading cockle English (AU)
white campion English
white cockle English
lychnis à gros fruits French
silène à feuilles larges French
silène à gros fruits French
assobios Portuguese
смолёвка широколистная Russian
gıcıgıcı Turkish
fehér mécsvirág Hungarian
golesak Croatian
silenka širolistá Czech
σιληνή φυσκώδης Greek
coireán bán Irish
opaiță albă Romanian
silenka širokolistá Slovak
куколиця буасьє Ukrainian
gludlys gwyn Welsh