779 Agrostemma githago L.

This anthropochorous, widespread species is indigenous in Eurasia. However, it is increasingly rare as a weed in fields. Its range in Sweden is, in fact, now reduced to Scania and the islands of Öland and Gotland. It has been introduced into N. America and many other parts of the world. With its present distribution it belongs to the circumpolar plants (Hultén, Circumpol. Il, p. 276 and map 268). Cf. also Meusel et al. 1965, map p. 136.