Silene latifolia seed
LATIN NAME: Silene latifolia
COMMON NAME: White Campion
The white campion is the pale star of the roadside, and the white, notched petals open through the evening. The upright, softly hairy, biennial or short-lived perennial plant carries the opposite, lance-shaped leaves and the loose clusters of the white or pale-pink, five-notched flowers with the inflated, bladder-like calyces through the late spring and the summer, one of the fine, pale sights of the verge. The plant is a fine, generous presence of the wild patch and the evening garden. It is a plant of the open, sunny, well-drained ground.
Scientific Research & Plant Biotechnology
The white campion is a fine subject of the plant science, and the notched petals keep showing up in the work on the campion group. The way the flowers open through the evening and draw the night moths has been studied steadily, and it keeps appearing in the studies of the evening flowers, the dioecious campions and the members of the pink family. The opposite leaves and the softly hairy habit have also made it a fine study plant, and the white campion is a regular subject of the work on the pale stars of the cool world.
Ecological & Economic Value & Wide Applications
The white campion is a fine, generous plant of the wild patch and the verge. The loose clusters of the white or pale-pink, five-notched flowers open through the evening, one of the fine, pale sights of the midsummer verge, drawing the night moths and the bees of the late day, and the inflated, bladder-like calyces follow into the fine, curious seed heads. The plant is one of the fine choices for the wildflower patch, the evening garden and the verge planting, and it seeds itself with the ease into the generous drifts. It has been written about in the botanical and the ecological papers for the pale stars and the evening ways, and it is a fine, generous plant of the open, sunny, well-drained garden.
A short cut in the grass near the plants suits them well, for the tall stems stand better against the wall or the fence.
To grow the white campion from seed, sow the small, round seeds over the surface of a pot of fine seed compost, with a light press, keep the pot in a bright, open spot and water gently. The seedlings are up within a couple of weeks and grow on steadily. With the sun and the well-drained ground, the pale stars will open through the evening.
Silene latifolia – White Campion, White Cockle, Evening Lychnis.
Silene latifolia is part of the large Silene genus, which has about 700 species worldwide; 70 in North America.
White Campion, which blooms in the summer and fall, was introduced into North America from its native Europe, and has spread across most of the United States except for a few southern states, and across Canada except for a few northern provinces since then.