Lychnis fulgens Fisch.

Brilliant campion (en)

Species

Angiosperms > Caryophyllales > Caryophyllaceae > Lychnis

Characteristics

Herbs perennial, 50--85 cm tall, pilose with sparse multicellular eglandular hairs. Roots caespitose, fusiform, slightly fleshy. Stems simple or branched above. Leaves ovate or ovate-lanceolate, 3.5--10 × 2--4 cm, both surfaces and margin pilose, base rounded, rarely broadly cuneate, slightly clasping, apex acute. Dichasium several flowered, dense, rarely corymblike. Pedicel 3--12 mm; bracts lanceolate, herbaceous, densely villous, ciliate at margin. Flowers 3.5--5 cm in diam. Calyx narrowly campanulate, 1.5--2.8 cm × 4--8 mm, villous, densely so at veins, slightly inflated in fruit; teeth triangular. Petal limb crimson-red, 2-lobed to 1/2; lobes linear, apex obtuse, sometimes obscurely denticulate, each lobe with a subulate, lateral tooth; claw narrowly lanceolate, not exceeding calyx; coronal scales dark red, narrowly elliptic. Stamens and styles slightly exserted. Androgynophore ca. 5 mm. Capsule narrowly ellipsoid-ovoid, 1.2--1.4 cm. Fl. Jun--Jul, fr. Aug--Sep. 2n = 24.
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A herb. It grows up to 85 cm tall. It keeps growing from year to year. The leaves are oval or sword shaped and 4-10 cm long by 2-4 cm wide.
Life form perennial
Growth form herb
Growth support -
Foliage retention -
Sexuality hermaphrodite
Pollination entomogamy
Spread -
Mature width (meter) -
Mature height (meter) 0.6 - 0.73
Root system -
Rooting depth (meter) -
Root diameter (meter) -
Flower color
Blooming months
JanFebMar
AprMayJun
JulAugSep
OctNovDec
Fruit color -
Fruiting months
JanFebMar
AprMayJun
JulAugSep
OctNovDec
Nitrogen fixer -
Photosynthetic pathway c3

Environment

It grows in woodlands on low hills, wet shady scrub meadows in China. In Sichuan and Yunnan.
Light 4-9
Soil humidity 4-6
Soil texture 1-6
Soil acidity 3-7
Soil nutriment -
Hardiness (USDA) 5-8

Usage

Uses medicinal
Edible leaves
Therapeutic use -
Human toxicity -
Animal toxicity -

Cultivation

Can be grown by seedlings.
Mode seedlings
Germination duration (days) 21 - 30
Germination temperacture (C°) 21
Germination luminosity light
Germination treatment -
Minimum temperature (C°) -
Optimum temperature (C°) -
Size -
Vigor -
Productivity -

Distribution

Lychnis fulgens world distribution map, present in China, Japan, Liberia, Mongolia, Korea (Democratic People's Republic of), and United States of America

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:155086-1
WFO ID wfo-0001291327
COL ID 3WJNV
BDTFX ID -
INPN ID -
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Synonyms

Silene fulgens Lychnis fulgens Lychnis fulgens var. typica