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Common Names
Origin
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infestation of old plants (Photo: Jackie Miles and Max Campbell)

stems and lower leaves (Photo: Sheldon Navie)

upper leaves, flower clusters and mature fruit (Photo: Jackie Miles and Max Campbell)

close-up of flower (Photo: Greg Jordan)

old fruit (Photo: Jackie Miles and Max Campbell)

young plants (Photo: Jackie Miles and Max Campbell)

Petrorhagia nanteuilii

Scientific Name

Petrorhagia nanteuilii (Burnat) P.W. Ball & Heywood

Synonyms

Dianthus nanteuilii Burnat
Tunica nanteuilii (Burnat) Gürke
Tunica prolifera (L.) Scop. (misapplied)
Petrorhagia prolifera (L.) P.W. Ball & Heywood (misapplied)

Family

Caryophyllaceae

Common Names

childing pink, proliferous pink

Origin

Native to western Europe (i.e. the UK, Italy, France, Portugal and Spain).

Naturalised Distribution

Widely naturalised in south-eastern and eastern Australia (i.e. in south-eastern Queensland, New South Wales, the ACT, Victoria, Tasmania and south-eastern South Australia).

Naturalised overseas in south-western USA (i.e. California).

Notes

Proliferous pink (Petrorhagia nanteuilii) is regarded as an environmental weed in Victoria.