Dianthus sylvestris

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Dianthus sylvestris

D. sylvestris. The Wood Pink, and found abundantly in rock and stony places on Mount Jura and the neighbouring Alps. It was once thought by some authorities to have given rise to the garden Carnation, but it has no fragrance.

It is one of the prettiest and most easily grown of the rock Pinks, and grows into a tuft of slender grassy leaves, which are almost hidden with the mantle of pink flowers on rather weakly stems. It has a creeping root or underground stem, and is best in loose stony soil on a sunny ledge, where the roots can penetrate into the moisture below. Introduced in 1814.