Flora

Silene vulgaris (Moench) Garcke

Family: Caryophyllaceae

Flowering Time: Mar-Jul.

General Appearance

Silene vulgaris (Moench) Garcke, it is a glabrous perennial plant with a root that is sometimes greatly thickened. Stems ± erect, ascending, or prostrate, up to 60 cm long. Leaves opposite, usually apiculate or mucronate; lower leaves petiolate, oblanceolate, with scabrid margins; middle leaves sessile, lanceolate, lanceolate-elliptic, or ovate-elliptic, with margins slightly or not at all scabrid. Multiflorous inflorescences with pedicellate flowers. Calyx inflated, persistent in fruit, ovoid-globose, with reticulate venation. Capsule enclosed within the calyx. Seeds grayish, reniform to suborbicular, wingless. Lateral faces slightly convex; back not grooved. Cells of the lateral faces and back polygonal, convex, with a central tubercle and toothed margins.

Life Form

Phytochoria

S-Cosm. The native range of this species is Temp. Eurasia, Macaronesia, N. Africa.

Distribution in Libya

Jabal Nafusa: Gharian 1967 Ain Rumia, Gebel Nafousa, 1967,1974 Gharyan (Sedrores Mountains) 2020

Al-Jabal Al-Akhder: Wadi Derna 1967,1978 Wadi Al-Agar 1999

Notes

Wild in Libya, the young shoots and the leaves may be used as food in some countries of the Mediterranean region.

This species is accepted: https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:158668-1

Link of images: https://atlas-sahara.org/Caryophyllaceae/Silene%20vulgaris/Silene%20vulgaris.html, https://gobotany.nativeplanttrust.org/species/silene/vulgaris/, https://www.atlasdesemillasdecanarias.org/atlas/ficha.php?ID=35

For more information

https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:158668-1, https://www.ipni.org/n/158668-1, https://www.worldfloraonline.org/taxon/wfo-0000440200, https://www.gbif.org/species/9172281, https://africanplantdatabase.ch/en/nomen/specie/134633/silene-vulgaris-moench-garcke, https://atlas-sahara.org/Caryophyllaceae/Silene%20vulgaris/Silene%20vulgaris.html, https://www.atlasdesemillasdecanarias.org/atlas/ficha.php?ID=35, http://naturewonders.org/picture?/2401, https://www.i-flora.com/en/fact-sheets/search-for-species/art/show/silene-vulgaris.html, https://biodiversitycyprus.blogspot.com/2016/02/silene-vulgaris-moench-garcke-cyprus.html, https://gobotany.nativeplanttrust.org/species/silene/vulgaris/, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silene_vulgaris

Bibliographic References

First: Encyclopedia Flora of Libyan:

Jafri, S.M.H. & El-Gadi, A. (1978) Flora of Libya, Caryophyllaceae Vol. (59) Department of Botany, Al-Faateh Univ., Tripoli, Libya. Page. 79.

Second: Researches and PhD theses, master theses, Sorted by Newest:

El-Ahmir, S.M., Mahklouf, M.H., Shanta, M.B., Abo-Jaafer, H.A. (2020) Floristic Study of Sedrores Mountains in Gharyan District-Libya. J. of Advanced Botany and Zoology. Volume 8 / Issue 1. ISSN: 2348-7313. https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Sh-Hoob-El-Ahmir, https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Mohammed-Mahklouf

Floristic Study of Sedrores Mountains in Gharyan District – Libya. 2020

Al-Hamadi R.I. (1999) Floristic and ecological study of Wadi Al-Agar, Master Thesis, Botany Department, Faculty of Science, Botany Department-Faculty of Science-Garyounis University, Benghazi, Libya. (In Arabic).

PAMPANINI, R. (1914). Piantae Tripolitanae, ab auctore anno 1913 […] – Firenze: 81 – under: Silene inflata var. angustifolia (Guss.) DC.