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Bladder campion

Bladder campion has wide range of distribution, also in Europe. In Estonia and also other places, the plant, which belongs to the family of carnations grows on drier ground: meadows and on the sides of fields, roadsides, wastelands, but also in thin forests, blossoming long until September.

 

The modest bladder campion, with a greyish green stalk up to half a meter in length, suits well into a Midsummer`s bunch of flowers. The calyx has swollen like a „bladder“ and is covered with a web-like pattern with white petals and calyx split into two – it seems as if there are ten petals, but actually there are half as much. Umbel flowers appear in great numbers on a plant – up to twenty.

 

And at nights, bladder campion scents the air.