Lychnis flower of cuckoo
The Lychnis flower of cuckoo ( Silene flos-cuculi ) is a long-lived herbaceous plant of the family of the Caryophyllacées.
Description
It is a set up plant, with the sheets and flowers ends. Often ramified, basal sheets petiolate, oblong, with the lancéolées sheets caulinaires. The flowers presents a tubulous chalice to 10 veins and 5 points. One observes 5 petals divided into 4 fine thin straps, including 2 principal and 2 finer. 10 cheesecloths, 5 styles. The fruit is a capsule with 5 valves. Flowering takes place from May to August.It is a plant of the wet meadows, marshes, peat bogs, any wet place on rich ground up to 2500 m of altitude.
Commune in all the Europe, it tends however to disappear at the same time as the wetlands move back.
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