1. Bluish-green herb having sticky stems and clusters of large evening-opening white flowers with much-inflated calyx; sometimes placed in genus Lychnis
   "Lychnis alba bloomed beautifully in the evening garden";
   - white campion, evening lychnis, white cockle, bladder campion [US], Silene latifolia

Type of: campion, catchfly, silene

Part of: genus Silene

Encyclopedia: Lychnis alba