Tag: White Campion (Silene latifolia)

One of my favourite wildflowers is the White Campion, an herbaceous annual of the Pink (Carnation) family.  Its corolla appears to have ten parts but it actually has five deeply cleft petals. Its blossoms open wide in the evening, emitting a sweet, clove-like scent which attracts many species of nocturnal moths for pollination.  As daylight…