Silene greenei

Campanulate campion

Family: Caryophyllaceae · Type: perennial · Native

Campanulate campion is a California native perennial herb found in rocky or open habitats at elevations of 5 to 40 centimeters. Flowering from early summer to fall, this plant produces white to pale pink or greenish flowers with delicate linear petals that nod or spread slightly. Growing with erect stems that are glabrous to slightly hairy, it develops multiple branches from a woody caudex. Its leaves vary distinctively from lower rounded or lanceolate forms to upper linear or ovate shapes, measuring 1 to 5 centimeters long and 2 to 30 millimeters wide. The fruit is an ovoid structure with a short puberulent stalk, bearing brown seeds approximately 2 to 2.5 millimeters long.

California counties: Del Norte, Siskiyou, Trinity, Humboldt, Shasta, Colusa, Glenn, Lake

Data from The California Species Project — 14,000+ California species with verified data from CNPS, CDFW, USFWS, Jepson eFlora, Cal-IPC, and more.