, known familiarly as rose campion, flowers in a magenta so bright it's been described as floral original sin. Its common name is thought to be derived from the word "champion" because its blossoms ...

We studied inbreeding depression in a perennial plant, Lychnis viscaria, in three populations differing in their inbreeding history and population size by measuring several traits at two nutrient ...

The Lychnis moth (Hadena bicruris) is laying more eggs on white campion (Silene latifolia), due to the increasing fragmentation of the countryside. Dutch researcher Jelmer Elzinga studied how many ...

The hermaphrodites of Lychnis dioica are modified males. They are of two kinds, which are here distinguished as "genetic" and "somatic" hermaphrodites. When the genetic hermaphrodites are used as ...

As I walk friends gardens, I am always looking for new plants (to me) or those I think would be interesting to other gardeners. I knew the Asian mayapple and have always like them, but the other two ...

Alys digs up Lychnis coronaria seedlings from the borders at Greenacre and transplants them into pots so that they can be planted out again for next year. Method: When tidying up beds and borders at ...

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