![]() Flowers. Photo: Luigi Rignanese, Italy |
![]() Plant. Photo: Luigi Rignanese, Italy |
![]() Base of plant. Photo: Luigi Rignanese, Italy |
![]() Immature plants. Photo: Don Wood, Scotia Sanctuary, NSW |
![](../Images/Silene_nocturna/Silene_nocturna_color_changed_Calif_rignanese.jpg)
Common Name
Mediterranean Catchfly
Family
Caryophyllaceae
Notes
Introduced annual forb to 60cm tall. Leaves opposite each other, the bases united and encircling the stem, 1-5.5cm long, 2-15mm wide, flat, sticky-hairy, with hairy edges. Flowers pink, tubular, with five feeply forked lobes, in raceme-like groups at the tops of the stems, each flower subtended by a leaf-like bract. The flowers only open at night.
Short description and photo in G.M. Cunningham, WE Mulham, PL Milthorpe and J H Leigh (1981 and later printings) Plants of Western New South Wales page 305
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Silene~nocturna