Common
name: Night Flowering Catchfly
Latin name: Silene noctiflora
Annual/Perennial: Annual
Flowers: May to July
Flower size: 1"
Found in: Plains to Foothills
Height: 30" to 36"
Invasive: No
Native species: No Useful in garden: No
Image taken:
Intersection of Deer Creek Canyon and Deer Creek Road
Pictured
Wildflower: Night Flowering Catchflly - Silene
noctiflora
Wildflower
Field notes: Night Flowering Catchfly and Bladder Campion
are close relatives. The flowers on each plant emerge from a
balloon like calyx in the morning, retracting during the heat of
the day, and reemerging as the sun begins to set.
Look for Night
Flowering Catchfly in sunny meadows, hillsides, and along roadways.
