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What is a catchfly?

What is a catchfly? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. Any of several unrelated plants that have sticky leaves on which flies become stuck; especially, the silenes or campions.
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However,theone that most caught the eye was Edinburgh favourite plant the sticky catchfly.
It feeds on the seeds of catchfly, campion, and will eat those of sweet-william and garden pinks.
Rare plants include purple gromwell, cornish moneywort, pale butterwort, small-flowered catchfly, and yellow bartsia.
It turned out to be a catchfly, and, like the Kentucky warbler, it became common a little later.
A member of the carnation family, Spalding's catchfly is a long-lived perennial herb with small greenish-white flowers.
A wide-growing, clump-forming catchfly, only 20 cm high.

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