I used the red-flowered or day-campion, which is a perennial herb, and a smooth variety of the white evening-campion, which flowers as a rule in the first summer. From Wordnik.com. [Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation] Reference
A semicircle of pink moss campion smiles from a stone. From Wordnik.com. [favorite quote | clusterflock] Reference
Bladder campion blooming now, along with the usual suspects. From Wordnik.com. [Spin-doctor: Maine city acquires waterfront park] Reference
Add bladder campion and columbine to the list of roadside botany. From Wordnik.com. [Gray] Reference
First field daisies blooming, bladder campion, vetch, and clover. From Wordnik.com. [Sunday roadkill report] Reference
Cockermouth, in the county of Cumberland, England, the red campion. From Wordnik.com. [The Child and Childhood in Folk-Thought Studies of the Activities and Influences of the Child Among Primitive Peoples, Their Analogues and Survivals in the Civilization of To-Day] Reference
And the blue in its turn yielded to the ruby-pink of the red campion. From Wordnik.com. [The Way Home] Reference
I have some campion that blooms in the spring, it did not bloom this year either. From Wordnik.com. [Seeing Yellow In A Mish Mash Way « Fairegarden] Reference
And she pushed a campion flower in his moustache, where it stuck, dangling under his nose. From Wordnik.com. [Lady Chatterley's Lover] Reference
But this year he's joined J.hnnie Cochran and the likes in the post O.J. Simpson campion of celebrity lawyers. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Dec 30, 2003] Reference
My hands were full of sweet may, red campion, and other native field-blossoms, which had introduced themselves to me anonymously. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 80, June, 1864] Reference
But she came slower, gathering forget-me-nots and campion and bluebells, running a few steps and watching him fleeing away from her. From Wordnik.com. [Lady Chatterley's Lover] Reference
Cornish heather, and golden with gorse, while dodder grows freely over the hedges; near the shore there is abundance of squills, sea-holly, and sea-campion. From Wordnik.com. [The Cornwall Coast] Reference
White mountain-avens may cover entire ridges in the Alaska Range, associated with moss campion, black oxytrope, arctic sandwort, lichens, grasses, and sedges. From Wordnik.com. [Alaska Range Humid Tayga - Tundra - Meadow (Bailey)] Reference
The flowers are a deep magenta, both richer and brighter than red campion found elsewhere, and they stand bold and beautiful against the blue of the sea beyond. From Wordnik.com. [Country diary] Reference
Cushions of thrift and bladder campion on old walls have faded, but purple spikes of betony and the white of yarrow and sea carrot enliven vegetation along the coastal path. From Wordnik.com. [Country diary: Cornwall] Reference
Salt tolerant plants such as sea pink Armaria maritime, sea campion Silene uniflora and sea plantain Plantago maritimus, Asplenium marinum and Grimmia maritima occur even inland. From Wordnik.com. [St Kilda (Hirta) National Nature Reserve, United Kingdom] Reference
Every now and then she swerved aside to pick the red campion. From Wordnik.com. [Life and Death of Harriett Frean] Reference
It was immaculate and beautifully engraved: mr albert campion. From Wordnik.com. [Mystery Mile]
"Oh, Robin ----" Her fingers loosened in her dismay; she went dropping red campion. From Wordnik.com. [Life and Death of Harriett Frean] Reference
I will now give two further illustrations afforded by crosses of the ordinary campion. From Wordnik.com. [Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation] Reference
Moss campion surrounded by lichen on Brodeur Peninsula, Baffin Island (Photo: Ed Wiken). From Wordnik.com. [Tundra ecoregion (CEC)] Reference
Let's call is campion Ridge for all the moss campion blooming on its windswept, barren flats. From Wordnik.com. [Kootenay Rockies - News] Reference
Blue wild geraniums also flourish in patches in the meadows, and sometimes cranesbill and campion. From Wordnik.com. [The Naturalist on the Thames] Reference
The thrift, sea lavender, rocket, sea campion, and maritime spurge did not descend so low as this. From Wordnik.com. [Waiting for Daylight] Reference
The lazy Mole winds slowly beneath its vault of spreading boughs and its fringe of white hemlock and red campion. From Wordnik.com. [Juniper Hall: A Rendezvous of Certain Illustrious Personages during the French Revolution, Including Alexandre D'Arblay and Fanny Burney] Reference
Then there is the white or evening campion of our hedgerows, which opens generally in the twilight, sending forth a perfume. From Wordnik.com. [Chatterbox, 1906] Reference
The best team of any given year isnt neccesarily the campion, in the same way that the best pitcher isnt always given the Cy Young. From Wordnik.com. [Comments for FanGraphs Baseball] Reference
She wants to be the campion of the developing world whilst not accepting that she is the biggest polluter overall (if not per capita). From Wordnik.com. [WHAT REALLY HAPPENED] Reference
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