Definition of Silene acaulis

1. Noun. Tuft- or mat-forming dwarf perennial of Arctic regions of western and central Europe and North America.

Exact synonyms: Moss Campion
Group relationships: Genus Silene
Generic synonyms: Campion, Catchfly, Silene

Lexicographical Neighbors of Silene Acaulis

Sigrid
Sigrid Undset
Sigurd
Sigyn
Siha
Siirt
Sikar
Sikh
Sikhism
Sikhs
Sikkim
Sikorsky
Silas
Silastic
Sile
Silene acaulis
Silene caroliniana
Silene dioica
Silene latifolia
Silene uniflora
Silene virginica
Silene vulgaris
Silent Sam
Silenus
Silesia
Silesian
Silesian German
Silesians
Silicon Alley
Silicon Beach

Literary usage of Silene acaulis

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Fertilisation of Flowers by Hermann Müller, Charles Darwin (1883)
"silene acaulis, L., ascends in the higher Alps to a height of over 10000 feet. ... As silene acaulis is adapted for diurnal Lepidoptera, so S. inflata, Sm., ..."

2. Rock Gardening for Amateurs by Harry Higgott Thomas (1914)
"Most tantalising of all is the Cushion Pink of the Alps (silene acaulis) ... There is a white variety, silene acaulis alba. Silene alpestris, on the ..."

3. Alpines and Bog-plants by Reginald John Farrer (1908)
"Now the stream flows gently, between banks that are clothed with the rosy snow of silene acaulis, so dense with flower that each yard-wide plant seems a ..."

4. The Worthies of Westmorland: Or, Notable Persons Born in that County Since by George Atkinson (1850)
"The story is that Wordsworth and Coleridge went one day with a plant called the silene acaulis (moss campion), plucked in Grise- dale Tarn, with the avowed ..."

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