Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
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Petrorhagia nanteuilii
Proliferous pink, Childling pink
Caryophyllaceae
Grassy areas and disturbed sites, often damp. Widespread. Uncommon on the ranges.
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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