Carnation
डायनथस कैरीओफ़िलसகானேசன்ഡയാന്തസ് കാരിയോഫില്ലസ്
Dianthus caryophyllus L.
- light
- Sun–part
- water
- Medium
- tall
- 76 cm
- wide
- 23 cm
Caryophyllaceae
Also called Clove pink, Clove Pink
Formerly Dianthus acinifolius, Dianthus arbuscula, Dianthus arrectus, Dianthus binatus, and 13 more
When it flowers
Not known yet in the tropics: too few flowering observations to read a season from.
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Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- SubshrubKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- TemperateKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- Balkan Pen.Kew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun to part shade (3 h or more)Read from NC State Extension, one source
- Height
- 30 cm to 1.2 mRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Spread
- 15 cm to 30 cmRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Water
- Average: moist, well drainedRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Flowers
- White, yellow, orange, red, pink, purpleRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Coldest it survives
- -23.3 °C (USDA zone 6a)Read from NC State Extension, one source
Not known yet: heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (12)
- Portuguese
- Cravo
- Bulgarian
- Карамфил
- Japanese
- カーネーション
- Chinese
- 康乃馨, 山猫儿, 石竹，洛阳花，康乃馨
- Simplified Chinese
- 康乃馨, 麝, 大花石竹
- Korean
- 카네이션
- Spanish
- Clavel
- Catalan
- Clavell
- Asturian
- clavel
- Czech
- hvozdík zahradní
- Welsh
- penigan pêr
- German
- Landnelke
Where this comes from
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-26, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- NC State Extension, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA 1.0
- 3D model: Dianthus caryophyllus (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
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