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Definition of Silene acaulis
1. Noun. Tuft- or mat-forming dwarf perennial of Arctic regions of western and central Europe and North America.
Group relationships: Genus Silene
Generic synonyms: Campion, Catchfly, Silene
Lexicographical Neighbors of Silene Acaulis
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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