Silene laevigata, the Troödos catchfly, is a glaucous, erect or decumbent annual plant. It grows high with glabrous stems and small leaves. It has pink flowers, and the petals bifid long. It flowers in March–June.Cyprus Flora in Colour the Endemics, V. Pantelas, T. Papachristophorou, P. Christodoulou, July 1993, Wild flowers of Cyprus, George Sfikas, Efstathiadis Group S.A. 1993 Anixi, Attikis, Greece.
Habitat Pine forest, roadsides and garrigue on dry igneous mountainsides at altitude.
Distribution Endemic to Cyprus, locally common on the Troödos range.
References
Flora of Cyprus Volume 1, Robert Desmond Meikle, Bentham-Moxon Trust, The Herbarium Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, 1977,
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