Scottish Rock Garden Club Forum

Plant Identification => Plant Identification Questions and Answers => Topic started by: Lori S. on June 15, 2011, 06:14:40 AM

Title: Dianthus alpinus?
Post by: Lori S. on June 15, 2011, 06:14:40 AM
I have grown other dianthus in the guise of D. alpinus, so I thought I'd ask if anyone can say if this is the real thing, please?  It seems to have the petal markings, no?  It's been happy in a tufa bed, since last year from seed (though that is no indication, of course, of how it may act in the long-term).
Thanks.

Title: Re: Dianthus alpinus?
Post by: ranunculus on June 15, 2011, 08:04:51 AM
I have grown other dianthus in the guise of D. alpinus, so I thought I'd ask if anyone can say if this is the real thing, please?  It seems to have the petal markings, no?  It's been happy in a tufa bed, since last year from seed (though that is no indication, of course, of how it may act in the long-term).
Thanks.



Just as difficult to identify in the wild sometimes, Lori!
This was a little too 'leggy' for D. alpinus but didn't cry out D. pavonius or D. seguieri either?
Title: Re: Dianthus alpinus?
Post by: hadacekf on June 15, 2011, 08:02:36 PM
The leaves of Dianthus alpinus are dark green, and the flowers are to 3cm across and borne singly on short stalks.


Title: Re: Dianthus alpinus?
Post by: ranunculus on June 15, 2011, 08:20:10 PM
Many thanks Franz ... you show a fine example.
Title: Re: Dianthus alpinus?
Post by: Lesley Cox on June 15, 2011, 08:58:20 PM
Franz's picture says it all, for both foliage and flower, so no, yours is not, Lori.
Title: Re: Dianthus alpinus?
Post by: Lori S. on June 16, 2011, 03:45:16 AM
Acckk!  I just realized I goofed... the seeds were labelled as D. glacialis, not D. alpinus.  I got them mixed up somewhere along the way as I labelled my photos.   :-[  Sorry. 
(Well, I guess I could ask if it really is D. glacialis... ?)
Title: Re: Dianthus alpinus?
Post by: Lesley Cox on June 16, 2011, 05:37:20 AM
It could well be Lori. As I said in another thread, save the seed as it's quite short-lived, even annual sometimes.
Title: Re: Dianthus alpinus?
Post by: Great Moravian on June 16, 2011, 01:45:12 PM
http://botany.cz/cs/dianthus-glacialis
Title: Re: Dianthus alpinus?
Post by: Lesley Cox on June 16, 2011, 10:27:10 PM
That's an excellent picture in your link Josef.
Title: Re: Dianthus alpinus?
Post by: Lori S. on June 17, 2011, 03:53:24 AM
Thank you, Franz and Josef, for the very useful photo references.
SimplePortal 2.3.5 © 2008-2012, SimplePortal