Campion
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Campion (Lychnis) - Plants of the Pink family, among which are a few well suited for the garden. All are perennial.
Red Campion
Characteristics
Hairy and tall with purple flowers from redish stems. Found in all manner of places and flowering sometimes in mild winter weather.
Moss Campion
Silene acaulis (L.) Jacq.
Family: Caryophyllaceae, Pink
Genus: Silene ...
Haage Campion, Catchfly
Hardy in poor soils, plant varieties of old-fashioned Campion in flower borders, cutting gardens and wild gardens. Flowers range from rich magenta and orange to the softest pastels to white.
Starry Campion
Silene stellata
Starry campion can be identified by its fringed white petals. Bladder campion looks somewhat similar, but its petals are notched, not fringed.
Moss Campion is part of the pinks family. It is well adapted to growing in the lower, and sometimes higher Alpine regions. Moss Campion only grows about 5-15 cm tall, hugging the ground for warmth.
Rose campion is a member of the carnation family with a circumpolar range in the mountains of the northern hemisphere. In North America, it grows in the arctic region and down the spine of the Rockies.
Moss Campion
Scientific Name: Silene acaulis (L.) Jacq.
Synonym: Silene bryoides, Silene exscapa
Family: Caryophyllaceae ...
Bladder campion is a hairless perennial herb, with branched stems 1-3 ft tall.
Silene (Canary Campion)
In the broad genus Silene or Campion and Catchfly several perennial species are endemic to the Canary Islands, out of which most are rare and threatened.
Index- plants in this Family
Caryophyllaceae / Pink Starry Campion (Silene stellata)
Starry Campion is also known as Widowsfrill. ...
( Alps Campion )
Branching evergreen perennial with lance-shaped to linear, medium green leaves, to 1 1/4" long, held in loose tufts. Rounded, open sprays of 1/2" wide, Dianthus-like, white flowers, borne in late summer.
Lychnis coronaria and cvs. (Rose campion, Crown pink, Mullein pink, Dusty miller)
Photo/Illustration: Steve Aitken
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It seeds true every year, although I do not have another variety like the Rose campion (top most photo) in the garden for it to cross with, so it keeps its white flowers.
Rose campion with neon-pink flowers and silver-gray foliage add vibrant color to the garden!
Description
Rose campion is an erect, many-branched biennial (or short-lived perennial) with softly wooly silver-gray leaves and stems.
Rose Campion; or,
Dusty Miller; or,
Mullein Pink
Rose Campion (Lychnis coronaria) is an evergreen biennial in our low-maintenance roadside sungarden. The genus name means "Lamp" & alludes to the ancient use of the felt-like leaves as lamp wicks.
Moss Campion grows on alpine tundra in spreading tufts of moss-like green. Barely above the tight cushion of tiny leaves, an array of five-petaled pink/lavender flowers arises and, with normal precipitation, often completely covers the green cushion.
bladder campion Silene latifolia ssp. alba
bladder senna Colutea arborescens
bloodflower; bloodflower milkweed; bastard ipecac Asclepias curassavica
bloodwood tree; logwood Haematoxylum campechianum
blue field gilia Gilia capitata ...
Catchfly, campion (Silene species)
Cattleya (Cattleya species, Cattleya hybrids)
Cauliflower (Brassica oleracea botrytis)
Ceanothus (Ceanothus species)
Cedar of Lebanon, atlas cedar, deodar cedar (Cedrus deodara, Cedrus libani, Cedrus atlantica) ...
'An annual herb of the Pink family; one of the Campions. The tall, slender stem, 2 to 4 feet high, has a dense coat of white hairs.
Wildflowers of the family that have indigenous American species include the pearlworts (genus Sagina), sandworts (Arenaria), campions and catchflies (species of several genera, especially Lychnis and the widespread Silene), ...
the fruit without being incorporated with it, becoming accrescent, as in various species of Physalis (fig. 53); at other times it remains in a withered or marcescent form, as in Erica; sometimes it becomes inflated or vesicular, as in sea campion ...
Rose Campion, a short-lived but self-sowing perennial, has a basal rosette of foliage its first year, then bursts into flower its second year, ...
Silene vulgaris. Bladder Campion. An introduced weed from Europe. It spreads by both seeds and roots.
Silene latifolia. White Campion.
(A.K.A. Silene alba, Lychnis alba).
Silene latifolia. White Campion.
(A.K.A. Silene alba, Lychnis alba).
LYCHNIS The Campion. Most suited for the front of the border. Likes full sun. Grows 450 to 900 mm (18 in to 3 ft) high and is in flower from June till August, the blossoms being pink and red shades. My favourite, L.
Evening Lychnis / White Campion
White
Lycopodium complanatum var. flabelliforme ...
Because most minor bulbs prefer well-drained soil, they're great for rock gardens, and their small stature means they combine well with low-growing alpines such as sandwort (Arenaria spp.), saxifrage, campion (Silene spp.) and speedwell (Veronica spp.
Useful garden flowers are sedums, scabious, sunflower, Michaelmas daisies, wallflowers, aubrieta and golden rod. Native plants, including foxglove, meadow cranesbill, primrose, cowslip, hemp agrimony, knapweeds, teasel and red campion, ...
Lychnis coronaria Rose Campion
Lysimachia species Loosestrife
Lythrum salicaria Purple Loosestrife
Miscanthus sinensis Silver Grass; Zebra Grass
Macleaya species Plume Poppy
Mentha speciesMint
Oenothera species Evening Primrose ...
 See also: Rose, Pink, Green, May, Grass
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