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  • COMMON NAME: Desert Campion
  • ARABIC: تربه
  • BOTANICAL NAME: Silene villosa Forssk.
  • SYNONYMS: Silene canopica
  • FAMILY: CARYOPHYLLACEAE
  • KIND: Native
  • EMIRATE: Abu-Dhabi , Dubai , Sharjah , Ajman , Umm-Al-Quwain , Ras-Al-Khaimah , Fujairah
  • GROWTH FORMS: Herbs
  • HABITATS: Sandy
  • TYPES: Annual
Flora of the United Arab Emirates V1 & 2, Fawzi M.Karim, Nael M.Fawzi; reviewed by Fatima Al-Ansary. Al-Ain: United Arab Emirates University, 2007. https://www.floraofqatar.com/silene_villosa.htm

Annual herb, usually glandular-pubescent, viscid, 5-20 cm high. Stems ascending, much branched-leaves, oblong-lanceolate, obtuse, 20-35 mm long, 3-5 mm wide. Flowers irregularly cymose; peduncles mostly shorter than the calyx. Calyx cylindrical, 10-20 mm long, club-shaped, reflexed in fruit, teeth 5, ovate, obtuse. Corolla showy, white to pale-pink, petals 5, 15-20 mm long, claws longer than calyx, lamina 2-parted obovate, obtuse lobes. Stamens 10, free. Carpophore shorter than capsule. Seeds reniform, dorsally grooved, brown, wrinkled. 

Flowering from February to April.
Sandy soil.
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