Citation: Desr. in Lam., Encycl. 3:643 (1792).

Synonymy: Agrostemma coronaria L., Sp. Pl. 436 (1753).

Common name: Rose campion, mullein pink.

Description:
Erect, covered with a silky-silvery tomentum, 30-100 cm high, much-branched; leaves sessile, oblong to lanceolate, acute, 3-12 cm long, c. 2.5 cm wide.

Flowers on long peduncles; calyx 12-20 mm long, with short linear twisted teeth; petals red, purplish, rarely pale or white, entire or emarginate.

Capsule oblong.

	Lychnis coronaria Twig, flower, fruit and seed
Image source: fig. 141a in Jessop J.P. & Toelken H.R. (Ed.) 1986. Flora of South Australia (4th edn).

Published illustration: Polunin (1980) Flowers of Greece and the Balkans, pl.3.

Distribution:    N.S.W.; Vic.; Tas.   New Zealand; native to south-eastern Europe. Conservation status: naturalised Flowering time: Nov. — Jan.

SA Distribution Map based on current data relating to specimens held in the State Herbarium of South Australia

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