silene

1. Any plant of the genus Silene (synset 111835960)
   is a type of: flower - a plant cultivated for its blooms or blossoms
   subtypes:

   • moss campion, silene acaulis - tuft- or mat-forming dwarf perennial of Arctic regions of western and central Europe and North America
   • silene caroliniana, wild pink - perennial of eastern and central North America having short-stalked pink or white flowers in hairy clusters
   • lychnis dioica, red bird's eye, red campion, silene dioica - biennial European catchfly having red or pink flowers; sometimes placed in genus Lychnis
   • bladder campion, evening lychnis, lychnis alba, silene latifolia, white campion, white cockle - bluish-green herb having sticky stems and clusters of large evening-opening white flowers with much-inflated calyx; sometimes placed in genus Lychnis
   • fire pink, silene virginica - perennial herb of eastern North America, having red flowers with narrow notched petals
   • bladder campion, silene uniflora, silene vulgaris - perennial of Arctic Europe having large white flowers with inflated calyx
   belongs to: genus silene - large widely distributed genus of plants having mostly showy flowers of various colors: campion; catchfly
   same as: campion, catchfly

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