788 Silene vulgaris (Moench) Garcke

Syn.: S. cucubalus Wib., S. inflata (Salisb.) Sm., S. venosa (Gilib.) Asch.

This polymorphic, partly anthropochorous species is indigenous in Europe and large parts of Asia. The subsp. maritima (With.) A. & D. Löve, often regarded as a distinct species, is treated separately here (no. 789). S. vulgaris is widely spread by man, into N. America, Australia etc. With its present distribution the species belongs to the circumpolar plants (Hultén, Circumpol. Il, p. 222 and map 214).