catchfly
Noun
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Any plant of the genus Silene (synset 111835960)
is a type of: flower - a plant cultivated for its blooms or blossomssubtypes:
- 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 -
Mostly perennial herbs with sticky stems that catch insects;
Widespread in north temperate zone (synset 111831942)is a type of: flower - a plant cultivated for its blooms or blossomssubtypes:- cuckoo flower, lychins floscuculi, lychnis flos-cuculi, ragged robin - common perennial native to Europe and western Asia having usually pink flowers with ragged petals
- lychins chalcedonica, maltese cross, scarlet lychnis - Eurasian garden perennial having scarlet flowers in dense terminal heads
- dusty miller, gardener's delight, lychnis coronaria, mullein pink, rose campion - an old cottage garden plant of southeastern Europe widely cultivated for its attractive white woolly foliage and showy crimson flowers
belongs to: genus lychnis - genus of plants strongly resembling those of genus Silene: catchflysame as: lychnis
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