Flower heads. Australian Plant Image Index, photo: Murray Fagg, Scottsdale Bush Heritage Reserve near Bredbo, NSW

Flowers going to seed. Australian Plant Image Index, phot:o AN Schmidt-Lebuhn, Koorawatha Nature Reserve SW of Cowra, NSW

Flowers on stem. Photo: Don Wood, ACT

Common Name

Proliferous Pink

Family

Caryophyllaceae

Notes

Introduced annual forb to 65cm tall. Leaves opposite each other, joined at the base with a stem-encircling sheath, 1-7cm long, about 2mm wide, linear, hairy or hairless. Flowers with 5 pink petals with notched tips, apparently solitary at the tops of the stems, actually in dense clusters ('heads') of 2-8 flowers, usually with only one flower open at a time.

Description and photo in G.M. Cunningham, WE Mulham, PL Milthorpe and J H Leigh (1981 and later printings) Plants of Western New South Wales page 302

PlantNET description:  http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Petrorhagia~nanteuilii