moss campion

moss campion (plural moss campions)

1. Silene acaulis, a campion in the family Caryophyllaceae.
   • 1791, Charlotte Smith, Celestina, Broadview, published 2004, page 474:

     Huge masses of grey marble, or a dark granite, frowned above his head; whose crevices, here and there, afford a scanty subsistence to lichens and moss campion […] .