Silene gonosperma - Angled-Seed Campion

Angled-Seed Campion is a perennial herb, 6-20 cm. Stems are sparsely clustered or solitary, erect, simple, densely velvety, at tip glandular hairy. Basal leaves are linear-inverted-lanceshaped, 3-6 cm x 4-8 mm, both surfaces velvet-hairy, margin fringed with hairs, base narrowed into stalk, tip blunt or pointed. Stem leaves are 1-3 pairs, stalkless, lanceshaped, smaller. Flowers are solitary, rarely 2 or 3, looking down. Sepal-cup is bell-shaped-spherical, 1.3-1.5 cm x 7-10 mm, base rounded, hairy and glandular hairy; longitudinal veins dark violet, not cohering at tip; sepal-cup teeth triangular, margin membranous, tip blunt. Petals do not protrude out or rarely slightly protruding beyond sepal-cup, dark violet. Stamens and styles do not protrude out. Flower-stalks are 2-5 cm, densely glandular hairy, bracts linear-lanceshaped, sparsely hairy. Capsule is ellipsoid-ovoid, 1-1.2 cm, 10-toothed. Seeds brown, round, flat, 1.5-2 mm in diameter including wing. Angled-Seed Campion is found in alpine meadows in the Himalayas, at altitudes of 3000-4400 m. Flowering: June-July.