It is a perennial with a short, tufted rootstock from which rise silene cucubalus numerous stems. The tough, lance-shaped leaves are scattered alternatively on the stem; crowded somewhat, at the base. The flower consists of five sepais, the broad inner two of which cucubalus silene are coloured purple. The corolla may be of the same hue, or pink, blue, white, or lilac. The stamens cohere, and the corolla is attached to the sheath thus formed cucubalus silene, and the pistil has a protecting hood over it.
The large, pale purple cucubalus silene flowers, with darker lines converging to the centre, are produced from the axils of the leaves, and are about one and a half inches in diameter. The five petals are silene cucubalus heart-shaped. In newly-opened Rowers it will be noticed that the anthers ripen and shed their pollen before the ten styles are mature. When, later, the stigmatic upper surfaces silene cucubalus of these become fit for pollination, they hold themselves above the drooping stamens, so that self-fertilization is impossible. The fruits consist of a number of one-seeded carpels, arranged cucubalus silene in a ring.
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