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Deschampsia caespitosa Hair grass Z 4-9
Airy pink panicles, like delicate billowing clouds of seed heads, top clumps of arching slender leaves in mid- summer persisting through winter.
Airy pink panicles like delicate billowing clouds of seed heads, top clumps of arching slender leaves in mid-summer persisting through winter.
Size: 2-4' x 18"
Care: moist soil in sun to shade
Native: Europe, Asia & No. America, Wisconsin nativeDeschampsia named for French botanist Deslongchamps (1774-1849.) Caespitosa means that it grows in clumps. Named and described in 1753.
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Desmanthus illinoensis Prairie mimosa, Illinois bundleflower Z 5-9
This legume bears round heads of frilly white flowers that turn to interesting spherical seed pods persisting all winter.
This legume bears round heads of frilly white flowers that turn to interesting spherical seed pods persisting all winter.
Size: 4’ x 3’
Care: sun in moist well-drained to dry soil. Looks like a shrub but is a perennial.
Native: Ohio to Florida and west to New Mexico and all states in between
Wildlife Value: Seeds are food for birds including the Ring-Necked Pheasant, Bobwhite Quail, and Greater Prairie Chicken.Desmanthus is Greek meaning “bundle flower” because the bunched flowers looked like a bundle. Pawnee, Sioux, Omaha & Ponca children used seed pods with dried seeds as rattles. Pawnees relieved itching with the boiled leaves. Sioux ate roasted seeds. Collected by French planthunter André Michaux (1746-1803) who spent 11 years in the US collecting plants
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Dianthus amurensis syn Dianthus chinensis Amur Pink Z 3-8
Five jagged-edged petals on its plum-purple blossoms, not pink, as are all other “pinks, the common name for Dianthus. It also flowers later and longer than most other Dianthus, flowering most of the summer. Its uniform purple stamens meld into the flower’s view but a thin, deep purple line encircles the center.
Five jagged-edged petals on its plum-purple blossoms, not pink, as are all other “pinks, the common name for Dianthus. It also flowers later and longer than most other Dianthus, flowering most of the summer. Its uniform purple stamens meld into the flower’s view but a thin, deep purple line encircles the center.
Size: 12" x 12"
Care: Sun in well-drained soil
Native: Amur River regionAmurensis means from the Amur River (flows between the boundaries of China and Russia.)
Re-named, separated from Dianthus chinensis, by French nurseryman and hybridizer Henri Antoine Jacques (1782–1866), best known for his creation of the Bourbon rose, in 1861 in Journal de la Société Impériale et Centrale d’Horticulture 7: 625. 1861 -
Dianthus anatolicus Anatolian pink Z 5-10
Dense mound-forming perennial with needle-like, evergreen grey foliage. Masses of whitish pink, feather- margined flowers with a wine-colored eye bloom in May-June. Highly regarded alpine plant.
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Dense mound-forming perennial with needle-like, evergreen grey foliage. Masses of whitish pink, feather- margined flowers with a wine-colored eye bloom in May-June. Highly regarded alpine plant.
Size: 3” x 6”
Care: sun in well-drained soil
Native: Turkey to TibetTheophrastus named Dianthus in the 4th century B.C., meaning “Jove’s flower.” The common name “pink” is from “pinct” referring to the jagged edge of the petals. In 1629 John Parkinson described the Dianthus: “There remain divers sorts of wild or small Gilloflowers (which wee usually call Pinkes) to be entreated of, some bearing single, and some double flowers, some smooth, almost without any deepe dents on the edges, and some ragged, or as it were feathered.” This species described in Diagnoses Plantarum Orientalium Novarum, ser. 1 1: 22. 1843.
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Dianthus arpadianus
Small pale pink flowers sit above short clumps of evergreen foliage
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Small pale pink flowers sit above short clumps of evergreen foliage
Size: 3” x 3”
Care: full sun in moist well-drained soil
Native: Greece & TurkeyCollected before 1934
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Dianthus carthusianorum Clusterhead PinkDianthus carthusianorum Carthusian pink, Clusterhead pink Z 5-9
Deep reddish pink flowers atop wiry stems from June until frost
Rosy carmine pink flowers atop wiry stems from June until frost
Size: 16" x 8"
Care: sun in moist well-drained soil.
Native: Central and southern Europe
Wildlife Value: attracts hummingbirds. Deer resistant.The common name “pink” is from “pinct” referring to the jagged edge of the petals. The word “pink” referring to the color, came from the fact that most of the Dianthus are pink. This species may have come into gardens with the Carthusian monks in the 1100’s.
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Dianthus cruentus Blood pink Z 5-9
Small but eye-catching carmine flowers held high on a leafless stem above basal foliage. Blooms in late spring-early summer
Small but eye-catching carmine flowers held high on a leafless stem above basal foliage. Blooms in late spring-early summer
Size: 2-3’ x 6-9”
Care: sun in moist well-drained soil
Native: Balkans
Wildlife Value: Attracts bees & butterfliesFirst described in Spic. Fl. Rumel. 1: 186 1843.
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Dianthus deltoides Maiden pink Z 3-9
May - June and longer if deadhead bright pink or white
May – June and longer if deadhead, bright pink or white
Size: 8”x 12”
Care: Full sun well-drained soil, slightly alkaline
Native: Scotland to Norway
Awards: England’s Royal Horticultural Society Award of MeritDeltoides refers to the inverted V-shaped pocket at the base of the petals. D. deltoides 1st identified in 1671 by Swiss botanist Gaspard Bauhin (1560-1624) in Pinax theatri botanici, a landmark of botany, describing and classifying some 6,000 plants.
