The Jepson Manual: Higher Plants of California

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Names are linked to treatments from the Manual


Key to DIANTHUS

N.B.: couplets are linked, e.g., 1. is linked to 1'.

  1. Flowers 1–few; pedicels mostly 5–10+ mm; bracts ovate, 1/3–1/2 × calyx tube, tip acute to short-tapered
D. deltoides subsp. deltoides
  1' Flowers few–many; pedicels 0–3 mm; bracts linear to lanceolate, mostly = or > calyx tube, tip long-tapered
 
    2. Calyx moderately hairy; leaf blade linear; fruit stalk ± 1 mm
D. armeria subsp. armeria
    2' Calyx glabrous; leaf blade ± lanceolate; fruit stalk 3–4 mm
D. barbatus subsp. barbatus


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