Lychnis means "lamp", the leaves were used as wicks to light in oil lamps. This flower opens at night and attracts moths for pollination. The Female flower has five curved styles and twenty veins striping the inflated calyx that looks like a balloon at the back of the flower. The male flower has ten stamen and ten veins on its calyx which is not inflated. There has been a Red Campion (which is pink) growing in our orchard for quite a few years now... it is quite rare, but I have not seen it this year........Where I found it : in a field
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