| Author | Poiret | |
| Distribution | Mostly in the Mountains and Piedmont; rare in the Sandhills and Coastal Plain.
Native of Eurasia; in N.A. essentially throughout Canada and AK, south to GA, AR, NM, CA. | |
| Abundance | Frequent in the Mountains, but uncommon in the Piedmont, and rare to uncommon in the Sandhills and Coastal Plain. | |
| Habitat | Roadsides, fields, meadows, barnyards, orchards, yard weed, garden weed, disturbed ground, vacant lots. | |
| Phenology | Flowering and fruiting May-July. | |
| Identification | With its large white (rarely pink) flowers, White Campion is showy. The stems are erect to ascending, branched, finely hairy, glandular short-hairy in the upper portions, reaching 2-3 feet tall. From all of our other Silene species, it differs in having 5 styles (vs. 3 styles in the others). | |
| Taxonomic Comments | Formerly included in the genus Lychnis, named as L. alba in RAB (1968).
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| State Rank | SE | |
| Global Rank | GNR | |
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