Silene vulgaris subsp. vulgaris

Perennial, glabrous or sparsely pubescent, often glaucous. Stems branching, basally woody, decumbent and caespitose, 25–90 cm long. Leaves sessile or rarely shortly petiolate, ovate to lanceolate, rarely linear-lanceolate, 20–60 mm long, 3–12 mm wide, acute. Inflorescence lax, usually several-flowered; bracts scarious. Flowers bisexual; pedicels often drooping, 5–30 mm long; calyx ellipsoid, inflated, 20–30-veined, reticulate, 8–15 mm long, more or less glabrous, calyx-lobes triangular-acute; petal-limb up to 10 mm long, white, pink or violet, deeply bifid; styles 3. Capsule broadly ovoid-conical, 15 mm long, with erect teeth; carpophore c. 5 mm long, glabrous; seeds subreniform, flat or convex, black, minutely asperate-tuberculate, 1–1.5 mm long.  Flowers mainly Oct.–Dec.