Elizabeth Campion is a richly beautiful alpine plant, the flowers looking more like those of some handsome but tiny Clarkia than of the Silenes commonly grown. They are large, bright rose to purple-pink with the bases of the petals white. The five petals are obovate or inverted heart-shaped, with a notch at the top. As with all campions, the flower base is quite fat and long and grooved. One to seven flowers are borne on stems 3-4 inches high. Leaves are stalkless and pointed lancelike. It is rare in a wild state, but occurs in the Tyrol and Italy, amid shattered fragments of rock, and sometimes in flaky rocks without soil. This beautiful "Catchfly" is not very common in gardens.