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White Pink
Dianthus albens
Dianthus albens (Wild pink) is a species of flowering plant in the family Caryophyllaceae.
It is indigenous to the south western Cape of South Africa, where it occurs on sandy, rocky substrates, especially coastal, from the Cederberg in the Western Cape, southwards to the Cape Peninsula, and eastwards into the Eastern Cape province.
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Description
Dianthus albens is a spreading or tufted herbaceous perennial, with semi-erect to upright stems reaching 35–40 cm, and with linear, opposite leaves. The inflorescence is slender, leafless, and bears one-to-many white to purple flowers, in Spring, Summer and Autumn (Sept-Apr.). The petals have entire or crenate tips (rarely shallowly dentate/toothed). The calyx is 12–18 mm in length, usually with 2 bract-pairs (sometimes with 1 or 3 bract pairs). The bracts have papery margins and reach max. 2/5 up the length of the calyx. When ripe, the seed capsule extends out beyond the calyx, by about 5 mm.
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 583618.