| Plants : Caryophyllaceae | Ferns and Flowering Plants |
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| Silene dioica |
Description: An herbaceous perennial with an attractive pink flower, up to about 2 ft (60 cm) tall, occurring on sea cliffs, woods and hedge banks; absent from many parts of Co. Down and Co. Armagh.
Lychnis dioica is an alternative name.
All names: Silene dioica (L.) Clairv.; Lychnis dioica L.; Melandrium dioicum (L.) Coss. & Germ.; Melandrium rubrum (Weigel) Garcke
Distribution Map from NBN: Silene dioica at National Biodiversity Network mapping facility, data for UK.
iNaturalist: Silene dioica at iNaturalist World Species Observations database.
| Hackney, P., 2026. Silene dioica. (L.) Clairv.. [In] Flora of Northern Ireland. https://habitas.org/flora/species.php?item=2998. Accessed on 2026-11-02. |