| Family | CARYOPHYLLACEAE |
| Genus species | Silene bungei Bocquet |
| Bibliography | Candollea 22: 15 (1967) |
| Native Range | Siberia to Central Asia and w. Himalaya |
| Primary Biome | Subalpine |
| Habitat | grassland |
| Description | basal leaves broadly lanceolate, 3-10cm long, at margins pubescent, stem leaves small, narrowly cuneate, flowers pendent, calyx 15-20mm, oval, violet striate, ventricose |
| Size | 15-30cm |
| Color | dark violet |
| Bloom | summer |
| Ca | |
| Type | perennial |
| Cultivation | humous, moist, but in winter drier, semi-shady site alpine house, moist, humous soil, shading in summer |
| Propagation | seed in spring, barely covered, germ. 1-3 months, 13-18°C division in early spring; cuttings in late summer |
| Synonyms | Gastrolychnis tristis (Bunge) Czerep. Gastrolychnis uniflora (Ledeb.) Tzvelev Lychnis apetala var. uniflora (Ledeb.) Regel Lychnis tristis Bunge Lychnis uniflora Ledeb. Melandrium preslii Czerw. & Warsz. Melandrium triste (Bunge) Fenzl Wahlbergella tristis (Bunge) Freyn |
| Territory | 3 Asia-Temperate 30 Siberia (ALT Altay, BRY Buryatiya, CTA Chita, IRK Irkutsk, KRA Krasnoyarsk, TVA Tuva, WSB West Siberia) 32 Middle Asia (KAZ Kazakhstan, UZB Uzbekistan) 36 China (CHX Xinjiang) 37 Mongolia 4 Asia-Tropical 40 Indian Subcontinent (WHM West Himalaya) |