Silene coronaria

Short-lived perennial, densely white-tomentose. Stems erect, usually much-branched, 30–100 cm long. Leaves sessile; basal leaves oblong-obovate 3–15 cm long, 10–35 mm wide, apex acute; cauline leaves oblong to lanceolate. Inflorescence lax, few-flowered; bracts herbaceous. Flowers bisexual; pedicle 1.5–11 cm long; calyx cylindrical to obovoid, 12–15 mm long, deeply 10-veined, calyx lobes narrow-lanceolate; petal-limb red to purple, entire to emarginate, 12–17 mm long; styles 5. Capsule ovoid, c. 14 mm long, 5-toothed; carpophore c. 2 mm long; seeds ± reniform, grey-brown, tuberculate, 1–1.5 mm long. Flowers Oct.–Jan.