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


White Campion Bladder Campion Nottingham Catchfly Three-nerved Sandwort Sea Sandwort
White Campion
Silene alba 		Bladder Campion
Silene vulgaris 		Nottingham Catchfly
Silene nutans 		Three-nerved Sandwort
Moehringia trinervia 		Sea Sandwort
Stellaria media


Fine-leaved Sandwort Spring Sandwort Thyme-leaved Sandwort Greater Sea-spurrey Lesser Sea-spurrey Sand Spurrey
Fine-leaved Sandwort
Minuartia hybrida 		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 Corn Spurrey Procumbent Pearlwort Annual Pearlwort Maiden Pink Soapwort
Rock Sea-spurrey
Spergularia rupicola 		Corn Spurrey
Spergula arvensis 		Procumbent Pearlwort
Sagina procumbens 		Annual Pearlwort
Sagina apetala 		Maiden Pink
Dianthus deltoides 		Soapwort
Saponaria officinalis


Corncockle
Corncockle
Agrostemma githago





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