Dianthus repens

Dianthus repens
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
(unranked):	Angiosperms
(unranked):	Eudicots
(unranked):	Core eudicots
Order:	Caryophyllales
Family:	Caryophyllaceae
Genus:	Dianthus
Species:	D. repens
Binomial name
Dianthus repens Willd.
Synonyms[1]
Dianthus alpinus subsp. repens (Willd.) Kozhevn. Dianthus chinensis subsp. repens (Willd.) Vorosch. Dianthus repens var. scabripilosus Y.Z.Zhao

Dianthus repens, common name boreal carnation or northern pink or cu jing shi zhu (in Chinese) is a plant species native to the Nei Mongol (Inner Mongolia) region of China, as well as to Siberia, the Russian Far East, northern parts of European Russia (Komi, Arkhangelsk, etc.), Alaska and Yukon Territory.^{[2][3][4][5][6][7]}

Dianthus repens is a perennial herb with many stems clumped together, sometimes erect but other times forming a mat pressed against the ground. Stems are hairless (except in some Chinese populations),^[8] up to 25 cm long. Leaves are linear or narrowly lanceolate, up to 5 cm long. Flowers are usually solitary but sometimes in clumps of 2-4, with pink to purple petals.^{[2][3][9][10][11]}

References

1. The Plant List
2. Flora of North America v 5
3. Flora of China v 6 p 104.
4. Eric Hulten. 1968. Flora of Alaska and Neighboring Territories. Stanford University Press. ISBN 9780804706438
5. Red book, Arkhangelsk region
6. Red Book, Komi Republic
7. Red Book, Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug
8. Zhao, Yi-zhi. 1989. Acta Scientiarum Naturalium Universitatis Intramongolicae 20(1): 110.
9. Willdenow, Carl Ludwig von. 1799. Species Plantarum. Editio quarta 2(1): 681–682.
10. Voroschilov, Vladimir Nikolaevich. 1985. Floristicheskie Issledovniia v Raznykh Roinakh SSSR 167.
11. Kohzhevnikov, Yu P. 1981. Novosti Sistematiki Vysshikh Rastenii (New Delhi) 18: 238.