Silene auriculata, Sibth. & Sm.

Tutin, T. G., Heywood, V. H., Burges, N. A., Moore, D. M., Valentine, D. H., Walters, S. M. & Webb, D. A., 1964, Flora Europaea - Volume 1. Lycopodiaceae to Platanaceae, Cambridge University Press : 168

49. S. auriculata Sibth. & Sm. , Fl. Graec. Prodr. 1: 301 (1809).

Caespitose, with short branched woody stock and robust 1- to few-flowered pubescent stems up to 30 cm. Basal leaves up to 12 cm, lanceolate, acute, thick, with roughly punctate surface, densely ciliate with undulate hairs 1-2 mm; cauline leaves 1-3 pairs, small, remote. Calyx 12-15 mm, densely glandular-hairy; teeth triangular, acute. Petal-limb c. 5 mm; claw exserted. Capsule c. 3 times as long as carpophore, ovoid, enclosed within calyx. • Mountains o f Italy (Alpi Apuane) and Greece. G r It.