Common name: Sweet William
Dianthus barbatus L. APNI* 
Description: Erect glabrous perennial.
Leaves narrow-ovate to lanceolate, 4–5 cm long, c. 8 mm wide, apex ± acute, margins scabrous.
Flowers up to 12 in clusters; pedicels to 5 mm long; bracts herbaceous, 12–16 mm long, ovate to lanceolate, apex acuminate. Calyx c. 16 mm long with acute teeth. Petals c. 24 mm long, purple, limb toothed.
Capsule obovoid, c. 11 mm long, shorter than calyx.
Distribution and occurrence: Sometimes cultivated as an ornamental; naturalized in Orange district and near Perisher Blue ski village. Native of Eur.-Asia
NSW subdivisions: *CT, *ST
Text by A. Doust (1990); edited KL Wilson (Feb 2014)
Taxon concept: Flora of NSW 1 (1990)
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