- Plants
- ›Vascular Plants
- ›flowering plants
- ›Dicots
- ›pinks, cactuses, and allies
- ›pink family
- ›Caryophylloideae
- ›Sileneae
Heliosperma
Heliosperma is a genus of around flowering plants in the tribe Sileneae of the family Caryophyllaceae. As such, it is closely related to the large genus Silene, but its members can be told apart from Silene by the crest of long papillae on the seeds. The majority of the species are narrow endemics from the Balkan Peninsula, but H. alpestre is endemic to the Eastern Alps, and H. pusillum is found from the Cordillera Cantábrica...
9 branches of this genus, most-observed first
alpine catchfly
speciesHeliosperma pusillum
alpine campion
speciesHeliosperma alpestre
Heliosperma macranthum
speciesHeliosperma macranthum
Heliosperma veselskyi
speciesHeliosperma veselskyi
Heliosperma intonsum
speciesHeliosperma intonsum
Heliosperma tommasinii
speciesHeliosperma tommasinii
Heliosperma malyi
speciesHeliosperma malyi
Heliosperma nikolicii
speciesHeliosperma nikolicii
Heliosperma retzdorffianum
speciesHeliosperma retzdorffianum
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
—
geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
Drag the globe to turn it. Dots are where records exist, not a range map; darker means more records.
In the stacks
Searching the stacks…
Every page naming Heliosperma in the Biodiversity Heritage Library →
This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 493438.