Key to Dianthus

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(For a list of species in Dianthus, use the above link.)

Jepson Manual glossary definitions can be seen by moving your cursor over words underlined with dots.

1. Flowers few to many; 

pedicels 

Stalk of an individual flower in an inflorescence, or the corresponding structure in fruit.

0–3 mm; bracts 

linear 

Elongate, with nearly parallel sides; narrower than elliptic or oblong.

to 

lanceolate 

Narrowly elongate, widest in the basal half, often tapered to an acute tip.

, mostly >= calyx tube, long-tapered

2. Calyx moderately hairy; cauline 

leaf 

Organ arising from a stem, generally composed of a stalk (petiole) and a flat, expanded, green, photosynthetic area (blade); distinguished from a leaflet by the presence in its axil of a bud, branch, thorn, or flower; sometimes with lateral, basal appendages (stipules); either simple (toothed, lobed, or dissected but not divided into leaflets) or compound (divided into leaflets).

± linear; fruit stalk ± 1 mm ..... D. armeria subsp. armeria

2' Calyx glabrous; cauline leaf ± lanceolate; fruit stalk 3–4 mm ..... D. barbatus subsp. barbatus

1' Flowers 1–few; pedicels mostly 5–25 mm; bracts 

ovate 

Egg-shaped (i.e., widest below the middle) in two dimensions (i.e., in one plane), as a leaf.

or obovate, 1/4–1/2 × calyx tube, 

acute 

Having a short-tapered, sharp tip, the sides convex or straight and converging at less than a right angle.

to short-tapered

3. Petal limb 4–9 mm, tip irregularly toothed ..... D. deltoides subsp. deltoides

3' Petal limb 8–15 mm, tip divided to narrow segments ..... [D. plumarius subsp. plumarius]

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