Silene gallica

Annual; pubescent, glandular above. Stems erect, simple to much-branched, 15–45 cm long. Leaves hispid-pilose, 10–35 mm long, 1–10 mm wide, subobtuse; lower leaves oblong-spathulate with petioles to 10 mm long; upper leaves sessile, lanceolate. Inflorescence simple, racemose, 1–several-flowered; bracts herbaceous. Flowers bisexual; pedicels erect in fruit, to 1.5 times calyx length; calyx cylindric-ovoid, erect and larger in fruit, 7–10 mm long, 10-veined, glandular-pubescent, pilose on the veins, calyx-lobes a quarter calyx length, narrow-triangular to linear-lanceolate, acute; petal-limb to 5 mm long, entire to emarginate, white or pink, with or without dark crimson basal spot; styles 3. Capsule ovoid, 6–9 mm long; carpophore c. 1 mm long, more or less puberulent; seeds reniform, faces deeply concave, dark greyish-brown, bluntly tuberculate, 0.8–1.2 mm long.