ROSE-OF-HEAVEN

Silene coeli-rosa

Agrostemma coeli-rosa

Carnation & Campion (Pink) Family [Caryophyllaceae]

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status
statusZneophyte
flower
flower8pink
inner
inner8indigo
morph
morph8actino
petals
petalsZ5
stem
stem8round
sex
sexZbisexual

24th Aug 2016, unknown location. Photo: © Bastiaan Brak
A garden escapee usually bright pink, but other variations could be blue or other colours. The leaves are linear. There are only a few flowers per stem.


24th Aug 2016, unknown location. Photo: © Bastiaan Brak
A hairless plant which grows to 50cm long.


24th Aug 2016, unknown location. Photo: © Bastiaan Brak
The calyx is between 15 to 28mm long and clavate (which the book describes as club-shaped - but your Author might say that were wider near the middle with several parallel brown scruffy ridges which may(?) be sticky - many Silene species are).


24th Aug 2016, unknown location. Photo: © Bastiaan Brak
The petals are usually notched (aka bifid) at the tip to varying degrees. The stems are exceptionally thin for the size of the flower it supports without bending. The anthers are mauve coloured.


24th Aug 2016, unknown location. Photo: © Bastiaan Brak
The calyx of the fruit has bulged considerably more with much more substantial ribs along it, which are now fawn in colour. The calyx teeth are long-triangular and number 5. two linear leaves emerge at a junction in the stem where a flower stalk emerges.


It is a garden plant which sometimes escapes into the wild on tips or wild places (but here in a road or a verge) mainly in South of England.

Not to be confused with : Rose-of-Sharron (Hypericum calycinum), Dog Rose (Rosa canina), Rosemary (Rosmarinus officinalis), Roseroot (Sedum rosea), Rose Clover (Trifolium hirtum), Guelder-rose (Viburnum opulus), Burnet Rose (Rosa spinosissima) nor to Rosebay Willowherb (Chamerion angustifolium) plants with similar names belonging to differing families.

But it is related to Rose Campion (Silene coronaria)


  Silene coeli-rosa  ⇐ Global Aspect ⇒ Caryophyllaceae  

Distribution
 family8Carnation & Campion (Pink) family8Caryophyllaceae
 BSBI maps
genus8Silene
Silene
(Campions)

ROSE-OF-HEAVEN

Silene coeli-rosa

Agrostemma coeli-rosa

Carnation & Campion (Pink) Family [Caryophyllaceae]