Description ³

Caryophyllaceae | Deptford pink
Deep pink flowers in flat-topped clusters atop stiff erect stems.

Habitat: Dry fields and roadsides.

Flowers: 0.5" wide; petals 5, with jagged edges and tiny white spots; bracts below flowers leaf-like, lanceolate or awl-shaped.

Leaves: 1-4" long, narrow, erect, light green.

Fruit: Many seeded capsule.

Occasional in Floracliff Nature Sanctuary.

Thieret, J. W., Niering, W. A., & Olmstead, N. C. (2001). National Audubon Society field guide to North American wildflowers: eastern region (Chanticleer Press ed.). New York: Alfred A. Knopf.

Sources and Credits

1. (c) floracliff, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-ND), uploaded by floracliff
2. (c) Jenn Forman Orth, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-SA), http://www.flickr.com/photos/49503155549@N01/22087054
3. (c) floracliff, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA)

More Info

• iNat taxon page
• Atlas of Living Australia
• Biodiversity Heritage Library
• BOLD Systems BIN search
• Calflora
• CalPhotos
• eFloras.org
• Flora Digital de Portugal
• Flora of North America (beta)
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF)
• Go Botany
• HOSTS - a Database of the World's Lepidopteran Hostplants
• IPNI (with links to POWO, WFO, and BHL)
• Jepson eFlora
• Maryland Biodiversity Project
• NatureServe Explorer 2.0
• NBN Atlas
• New Zealand Plant Conservation Network
• OregonFlora.org
• SEINet Symbiota portals
• Tropicos
• USDA PLANTS database
• VASCAN by Canadensys
• World Flora Online
• 日本のレッドデータ検索システム
• 植物和名−学名インデックス YList

iNat Map