Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Petrorhagia nanteuilii
Common name
Proliferous pink, Childling pink
Family
Caryophyllaceae
Where found
Grassy areas and disturbed sites, often damp. Widespread. Uncommon on the ranges.
Notes
Introduced annual herb to 0.6 m tall, hairless or partly tomentose. Stems cylindrical, sometimes somewhat furrowed. Leaves opposite each other, 1-7 cm long, about 2 mm wide, hairy or hairless, margins finely toothed, tips pointed, the stem-encircling sheath at the base slightly longer than broad. Flowers with 5 pink or purplish petals each 10–13 mm long, with notched tips, apparently single at the tops of the stems, actually in dense clusters ('heads') of 2-8 flowers, usually with only one flower open at a time, enclosed in brown to straw-coloured papery bracts. Flower heads 12-15 mm long. Flowers Spring to Summer.
Sometimes hybridises with Petrorhagia dubia.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Petrorhagia~nanteuilii (accessed 22 January, 2021)
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