Red Campion (Silene dioica)

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Biology

Campion is the common name of flowering plants in two closely related genera in the family Caryophyllaceae: Classes Magnoliopsida - Dicots Liliopsida - Monocots The flowering plants (also angiosperms or Magnoliophyta) are one of the major groups of modern plants, comprising those that produce seeds in specialized reproductive organs called flowers, where the ovulary or carpel is enclosed. ... Genera See text The Caryophyllaceae, the Pink or Carnation family, are a family of dicotyledons, flowering plants, included in the order Caryophyllales. ...

• Lychnis
• Silene

Species Lychins chalcedonica (Maltese Cross) Lychnis coronaria (rose campion) Lychnis flos-cuculi (ragged robin) Lychnis flos-jovis (flower-of-Jove) Lychnis fulgens The genus Lychnis are flowering plants in the family Caryophyllaceae. ... Species Red campion, White campion, Sea campion, Firepink or fiery campion, Bladder campion, Silene is a genus of flowering plants in the family Caryophyllaceae. ...

Family name

Campion is a family name: A family name, or surname, is the part of a persons name that indicates to what family he or she belongs. ...

• Cassie Campion (a champion squash player)
• Edmund Campion (a Jesuit and Roman Catholic Martyr)
• Jane Campion (a film director)
• Thomas Campion (a composer, poet and physician)

Cassie Jackman (born December 22, 1972 and competing in some years as Cassie Campion) is an English squash player who won the World Open in 1999. ... Squash racquet and ball Squash is an indoor racquet sport which was, until recently, called Squash Rackets, a reference to the squashable soft ball used in the game (compared with the harder ball used in its parent game Racquets or Rackets--see below). ... Edmund Campion (January 24, 1540 - December 1, 1581) was an English Jesuit and Roman Catholic martyr. ... The Society of Jesus (Latin: Societas Iesu), commonly known as the Jesuits, is a Roman Catholic religious order. ... The Roman Catholic Church, most often spoken of simply as the Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with over one billion members. ... Historically, a martyr is a person who dies for his or her religious faith. ... Jane Campion (born April 30, 1954 in Wellington, New Zealand) is a film director. ... The film director, on the right, gives last minute direction to the cast and crew, whilst filming a costume drama on location in London. ... Thomas Campion, sometimes Campian (February 12, 1567 – March 1, 1620) was an English composer, poet and physician. ... A composer is a person who writes music. ... Poets are authors of poems, or of other forms of poetry such as dramatic verse. ... A physician is a person who practices medicine. ...

Fiction

• Albert Campion is a fictional character created by Margery Allingham, which became a television series (Campion) in 1989
• Campion is the name of a rabbit in the novel Watership Down by Richard Adams

Albert Campion is a fictional character in a series of detective novels and short stories by Margery Allingham. ... A fictional character is any person who appears in a work of fiction. ... Margery Louise Allingham (May 20, 1904 - June 30, 1966), was a British novelist, popular from the 1920s onwards. ... Genera Pentalagus Bunolagus Nesolagus Romerolagus Brachylagus Sylvilagus Oryctolagus Poelagus The bane of Australian farmers - the wild rabbit An old rabbit trap Rabbits are small mammals in the family Leporidae, found in many parts of the world. ... Watership Down For the hill named Watership Down, see Watership Down, Hampshire. ... The name Richard Adams may refer to: Richard Adams, author Richard Adams, founder of Traidcraft Richard Adams, songwriter This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists pages that might otherwise share the same title. ...

Business and commerce

• Campion is a manufacturer of boats [1]

Education

• Campion Hall, a private hall of the University of Oxford in Oxfordshire, England, UK
• Campion School in Athens, Greece
• The Campion School, a catholic science college in Hornchurch, Essex
• Campion School in Bugbrooke, Northampton