Historical reference: Do not rely on this information. It is very old. About this collection
Campion, the English name for several meadow flowers, mostly species of the caryophyllaceous genera Lychnis and Silene, with rose-coloured or white flowers. L. coronaria and L. Flos-Jovis, common garden flowers, are called rose campions; L. diurna is the wild red campion; L. vespertina, the evening or white campion, sweet-scented at dusk; and Silene inflata, the bladder-campion, so named from its inflated calyx.