, known familiarly as rose campion, flowers in a magenta so bright it's been described as floral original sin. Its common name is thought to be derived from the word "champion" because its blossoms ...

The Lychnis moth (Hadena bicruris) is laying more eggs on white campion (Silene latifolia), due to the increasing fragmentation of the countryside. Dutch researcher Jelmer Elzinga studied how many ...

- bluish-green herb having sticky stems and clusters of large evening-opening white flowers with much-inflated calyx; sometimes placed in genus Lychnis ...

INVESTIGATIONS of petal-colour inheritance in Lychnis species have resulted in considerable confusion owing to insufficiently precise identification of the forms studied.

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