red campion

red campion (plural red campions)

1. A biennial or perennial plant native to northern and central Europe, of species Silene dioica, with pink or red flowers.
   • 2020, Paul Mendez, Rainbow Milk, Dialogue Books (2021), pages 317–318:

     Hedges, where the last of the red campion and honeysuckle grow, block the views of the landscape – the occasional gap shows a field of dry hay bales or cleared ground through which lilac teasels have sprung.

• red catchfly

• incompared, pinacoderm