Saponaria calabrica Guss.
Taxon info
Saponaria calabrica occurs locally in S Italy and through the Balkan Peninsula to W Anatolia. In Greece it is found particularly in Peloponnisos and the W mainland, often gregarious on rocky slopes and gravelly road embankments at low to moderate altitude. In Peloponnisos it often grows mixed with the local Silene integripetala, which is remarkably similar in petal colour and presumably shares the same pollinator.A
A. Dimopoulos, P., Raus, Th., Bergmeier, E., Constantinidis, Th., Iatrou, G., Kokkini, S., Strid, A. & Tzanoudakis, D. 2013: Vascular plants of Greece: An annotated checklist. 31: p. 332 [Plate 8.7]
Distribution
GR(IoI NPi SPi Pe StE EC NC NE WAe KK EAe)
Greece (East Aegean islands present; East Central Greece present; Ionian Islands present; Kriti and Karpathos present; North Central Greece present; North Pindos present; North-East Greece present; Peloponnisos present; South Pindos present; Sterea Ellas present; West Aegean islands present)
