Silene dioica

Perennial; hairs soft, spreading, almost eglandular. Stems erect, simple or basally branched, 20–90 cm. Leaves 20–90 mm long, 3–45 mm wide, petioles up to 30 mm long; basal leaves long-petiolate, obovate-oblong; stem leaves short-petiolate to subsessile, oblong-elliptic, acute to acuminate. Inflorescence terminal, many-flowered; bracts herbaceous. Flowers unisexual; pedicels 0–20 mm long; calyx cylindric-ovoid, becoming ovoid in fruit, 10–15 mm long, male 10-veined, female 20-veined, more or less glandular-hairy, calyx-lobes broadly triangular, acute; petal-limb 5–10 mm long, pale to deep pink, deeply bifid, lobes narrow-obovate; styles 5. Capsule globose to broad-ovoid, 10–15 mm long; carpophore absent; seeds discoid-reniform, dark brown, finely asperate-tuberculate, c. 1 mm long. Flowers mainly spring.