| Scientific Name: | Dianthus caryophyllus |
| Common Name: | carnation |
| Family Name: | Caryophyllaceae |
| Origin: | Europe |
| Hardiness Zone: | Zone 6: (-23 to -18 °C) |
| Plant Type: | Flowering cut plant, Herbaceous perennial |
| Mature Size: | 0.4 - 0.7m x 0.3 - 0.6m (height x width) |
| Habit: | Stiffly upright |
| Form: | Mounded |
| Texture: | Medium - fine |
| Landscape Uses: | Attract butterflies, Container planting, Cut flower or foliage, Floristry, Fragrance, Perennial border, Rock garden, Summer interest |
| Exposure: | Full sun |
| Soil or Media: | Alkaline, Rocky or gravelly or dry, Well-drained |
| Leaves: | Simple, Opposite, Soft flexible, Glabrous, Linear, Entire |
| Flowers: | Cyme, White, Orange, Yellow, Green-yellow, Green, Violet, Purple, Pink, Magenta, Red, Dark-red, May-Jun-Jul-Aug-Sep |
| Fruit: | Capsule, Brown, Oct-Nov |
| Key ID Features: | |
| Loosely tufted with woody base, most cultivars 15cm - 80cm tall; leaves opposite, linear, most 4-12cm long x 3-7mm wide, glaucous, bluish-gray-green, base decurrent, nodes swollen; cyme with 2-5(-7) florets, each 3-5cm wide, petals 5-20, ruffled. | |