Biennial European catchfly having red or pink flowers; sometimes placed in genus Lychnis.
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Every now and then she swerved aside to pick the red campion.
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My hands were full of sweet may, red campion, and other native field-blossoms, which had introduced themselves to me anonymously.
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More common interlopers are cut some slack, too: cow parsley, red campion and buttercups may be glimpsed here and there.
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"Oh, Robin-- "Herfingers loosened in her dismay; she went dropping red campion.
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"Yes," she said, "that's where the dark- red campion grows."
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They do not occur in male Lychnis dioica, but next spring I will look to male holly flowers.
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I have seen Rhingia rostrata acting in this manner with the flowers of Lychnis dioica, Ajuga reptans, and Vici sepium.