Silene bungei - Purple-Vein Campion

Purple-Vein Campion is a perennial herb, 25-40 cm tall. Flowers are borne singly, sometimes 2 or 3, nodding, erect later. Flower-stalk is almost as long as the sepal-cup, elongating later, sticky, hairy. Sepal-cup is spherical-bell-shaped, sac-like, 1.8-2.2 x 1.2-1.5 cm, membranous, sparsely robust glandular hairy, contracted at tip, opened later, veins dark violet, with brown-violet glandular hairs, coherent at sepal-cup teeth. Sepal-cup teeth are triangular, margin fringed with hairs, tip pointed. Petals protrude 1-3 mm beyond sepal-cup, violet; claws 1.4-1.6 cm, wedge-shaped, with narrow ears, limbs notched or shallowly bifid; lobes entire or shallowly toothed. Stamens do not protrude out. Stems are sparsely clustered, erect, pale yellowish green, black at tip, simple. Basal leaves are inverted-lanceshaped or linear-inverted-lanceshaped, 4-10 x 0.6-1 cm, base narrowed into leaf-stalk, tip blunt or pointed; stem leaves 1-4 pairs, narrowly elliptic, smaller than basal leaves, nearly stalkless, both surfaces hairless, fringed with hairs, midvein prominent; distal leaves narrowly lanceshaped, sometimes withered, coarsely glandular hairy. Capsules are round, 1.2-1.5 x 1-1.4 cm, 5-toothed. Purple-Vein Campion is found in Central Asia to Siberia and W. Himalaya, at altitudes of 4000-5300 m. Flowering: June-July.