Petrorhagia prolifera (L.) P.W.Ball & Heywood Proliferous Pink

Petrorhagia prolifera (L.) P.W.Ball & Heywood - Proliferous Pink

Scientific Description:

Annual. Stems ± erect, glabrous, 6−40 cm. Leaf sheaths short, less than 2 × longer than broad. Leaves linear to linear-oblong, 3-veined, serrate-setose. Inflorescence capitate, often reduced to 1 flower. Bracts brown-scarious enclosing the calyces, the largest bract 4 mm or more broad. Calyx 10−13 mm, costae 3-veined, teeth obtuse. Petals 10−14 mm, distinctly clawed, pink or purplish, the limb obcordate. Seeds 1.3−1.9 × 0.8−1.1 mm, reticulate.

Flowering time: June−August.

Habitat: Slopes, 1000−1200 m.

Reference:

Coode MJE & Cullen J (1967). Petrorhagia prolifera (L.) Ball & Heywood, In: Davis PH (ed.), Flora of Turkey and the East Aegean Islands, Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh, 2: 135.

Public Description:

Petrorhagia prolifera, common name “proliferous pink” or “proliferous childing-pink”, is native to central and southern Europe and Asia, where it is gradually spreading south and west from the Northeast. It is an annual herbaceous plant with pink flowers reaching up to 40 cm in height. Its blooms between June and August and is found in slopes.

References:

Anonymous 1 (2015). https://gobotany.newenglandwild.org/species/petrorhagia/prolifera/, Accessed date: 30.12.2015.

Anonymous 2 (2015). https://www.brc.ac.uk/plantatlas/index.php?q=plant/petrorhagia-prolifera, Accessed date: 30.12.2015.

Aktaş K (2012). Petrorhagia Link, In: Güner, A., Aslan, S., Ekim, T., Vural, M. & Babaç, M.T. (eds.), Türkiye Bitkileri Listesi (Damarlı Bitkiler). Nezahat Gökyiğit Botanik Bahçesi ve Flora Araştırmaları Derneği Yayını. İstanbul, pp. 351–352.