Stats

Lifespan: 1-3 yrs
Size: Medium
Diet: Photosynthetic
Biome: Temperate grassland
Range: Europe
Movement: Sessile
Breeding: Seeds
Defense: Toxins
Status: Common

About

White Campion is a short-lived perennial wildflower that opens its white, five-petaled blooms at dusk and closes them by morning, relying on night-flying moths for pollination. It is dioecious — male and female flowers grow on separate plants — and females develop inflated, ribbed seed capsules that rattle when ripe.

Life cycle

1.
seed
A dormant seed waits for water and warmth before germinating.
2.
sprout
A first shoot emerges with cotyledon leaves and a tap root reaching down.
3.
sapling
A young plant grows true leaves and a stem or trunk, putting on height each season.
4.
mature
Fully grown, flowering or fruiting at adult size.

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Taxonomy

Kingdom: Plantae
Phylum: Tracheophyta
Class: Magnoliopsida
Order: Caryophyllales
Family: Caryophyllaceae
Genus: Silene
Species: Silene latifolia