Authors: Boiss.  

Botanical Description

Silene pumilio). A very dwarf species forming hummocks to 40cm across but only a few centimetres high. The leaves are linear, 5-7mm long by 1mm wide. Flowering stems glandular hairy, l-8cm tall, bearing often solitary but sometimes up to ten flowers. These are crimson to pale purple, occasionally white, to 1.5cm across. On rocky slopes and screes usually on acid soils in south-eastern Europe, Turkey and Lebanon.

a, S. caespitosa; b, S. ocymoides; c, S. pumilio;