Campion family (Caryophyllaceae)

The Campion family consists of flowers with 5 free petals and 5 sepals (except for pearlworts), and usually 8-10 stamens. It includes pinks, campions, catchflies, stitchworts, chickweeds, mouse-ears, sandworts, pearlworts, spurreys and sea-spurreys.

List of flowers currently featured in the Campion family

Greater Stitchwort Lesser Stitchwort Bog Stitchwort Common Chickweed Greater Chickweed Water Chickweed Common Mouse-ear
Greater Stitchwort
Stellaria holostea 		Lesser Stitchwort
Stellaria graminea 		Bog Stitchwort
Stellaria alsine 		Common Chickweed
Stellaria media 		Greater Chickweed
Stellaria neglecta 		Water Chickweed
Myosoton aquaticum 		Common Mouse-ear
Cerastium fontanum


Sticky Mouse-ear Ragged Robin Red Campion Sea Campion White Campion
Sticky Mouse-ear
Cerastium glomeratum 		Ragged Robin
Lychnis flos-cuculi 		Red Campion
Silene dioica 		Sea Campion
Silene uniflora 		White Campion
Silene alba


Bladder Campion Nottingham Catchfly Three-nerved Sandwort Sea Sandwort Fine-leaved Sandwort
Bladder Campion
Silene vulgaris 		Nottingham Catchfly
Silene nutans 		Three-nerved Sandwort
Moehringia trinervia 		Sea Sandwort
Stellaria media 		Fine-leaved Sandwort
Minuartia hybrida


Spring Sandwort Thyme-leaved Sandwort Greater Sea-spurrey Lesser Sea-spurrey Sand Spurrey Rock Sea-spurrey
Spring Sandwort
Minuartia verna 		Thyme-leaved Sandwort
Arenaria serpyllifolia 		Greater Sea-spurrey
Spergularia media 		Lesser Sea-spurrey
Spergularia marina 		Sand Spurrey
Spergularia rubra 		Rock Sea-spurrey
Spergularia rupicola


Corn Spurrey Procumbent Pearlwort Annual Pearlwort Soapwort Corncockle
Corn Spurrey
Spergula arvensis 		Procumbent Pearlwort
Sagina procumbens 		Annual Pearlwort
Sagina apetala 		Soapwort
Saponaria officinalis 		Corncockle
Agrostemma githago





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