Definition of Lychnis alba

1. Noun. Bluish-green herb having sticky stems and clusters of large evening-opening white flowers with much-inflated calyx; sometimes placed in genus Lychnis.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Lychnis Alba

Luír Cheltchair
Lviv
Lvov
Lw
Lyallpur
Lyb antigen
Lybian
Lybian Arab Jamahiriya
Lycaena
Lycaena hypophlaeas
Lycaenidae
Lycaeon
Lycaon pictus
Lychins chalcedonica
Lychins floscuculi
Lychnis alba (current term)
Lychnis coronaria
Lychnis dioica
Lychnis flos-cuculi
Lycia
Lycian
Lycium
Lycium barbarum
Lycium carolinianum
Lycium halimifolium
Lycoperdaceae
Lycoperdales
Lycopersicon
Lycopersicon esculentum
Lycopersicon esculentum cerasiforme

Literary usage of Lychnis alba

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

1. An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States, Canada and the British by Nathaniel Lord. Britton, Hon. Addison. Brown (1913)
"Flower and pod erect or nearly so. Calyx-teeth twisted ; plant densely white-woolly all over. i. Lychnis alba Mill. White Campion. Evening Lychnis. Fig. ..."

2. The Plant World by Plant World Association, Wild Flower Preservation Society (U.S.) (1918)
"... capitatum 3 Lychnis alba 1 Cynoglossum officinale 3 Sisymbrium officinale 1 Rumex acetosella 3 Twenty other species also occurred in the association, ..."

3. The American Botanist edited by Willard Nelson Clute (1906)
"RANGE OF Lychnis alba.—The white evening campion (Lychnis alba) is a weed so recently introduced that it failed to be noted in any but the most recent ..."

4. The Gardeners Dictionary: Containing the Methods of Cultivating and ...by Philip Miller by Philip Miller (1754)
"Zan. Umbelliferous Mountain Campion of Helvetia. 6. LYCHNIS alba multiplex. C. Б. P. Double white Campion, commonly called the Bachelor's- button. .7. ..."

5. Hortus Kewensis: Or, A Catalogue of the Plants Cultivated in the Royal by William Aiton (1789)
"Bauh, pin. 204. Double-flower'd red Lychnis. J Lychnis alba multiplex. Bauh. pin. 204. Double-flower'd white Lychnis. Nat. of Britain. ..."

6. List of Pteridophyta and Spermatophyta Growing Without Cultivation in by Botanical Club (1894)
"Lychnis alba Mill. Gard. Dict. Ed. 8, No. 4 (1768). Lychnis vespertina Sibth. Fl. Oxon. 146 (17^4). 1616. Lychnis apetala L. Sp. Pl. 437 (1753). 1617. ..."

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