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Dianthus barbatus
The color pink may be named after the flower, coming from the frilled edge of the flowers: the verb "pink" means "to decorate with a perforated or punched pattern. The species are mostly perennial herbs, a few are annual or biennial, and some are low subshrubs with woody basal stems. The leaves are opposite, simple, mostly linear and often strongly glaucous grey-green to blue-green. The flowers have five petals, typically with a frilled or pinked margin, and are (in almost all species) pale to dark pink. Common names include carnation, pink.
like a warm soil and one that will not become too wet at any time. The plants will die out quickly if the soil is not well drained. They should be divided often, else the plants will choke themselves out.
(Ornamental) a genus of about 300 species of flowering plants. Native mainly to Europe and Asia, with a few species extending south to north Africa, and one species (D. repens) in arctic North America.
Spotted on May 6, 2012
Submitted on May 7, 2012
