Dianthus crinitus Sm., it is a perennial, erect, up to 35 cm tall, glabrous-glaucous, robust herb with numerous brooches from the woody rootstock. Leaves flat, linear, 2-8 cm x 1-1.5 mm, connate-vaginate at the apex. Flowers white or pinkish-white, solitary. terminal; bracteoles 4-8, ovate-lanceolate, c. 1/3 of calyx aristate to cuspidate-acute, membranous margined. Calyx cylindrical, 25-40 mm long, glaucous, multinerved; teeth linear-lanceolate, 8-10.5 mm long, mostly 8-nerved, acute-acuminate, scarious and ± ciliate on margins. Petal limb obovate-cuneate, 1.5-1.7 cm long, fimbriate to more than half its length. not barbulate, lacinae unequal, linear-filiform; claw exserted, 30-42 mm long, dilated upwards. Filaments filiform, glabrous; anthers oblong-linear, 2-2.5 mm long. Ovary glabrous, on c. 3 mm long, glabrous stipe, Capsule cylindrical, c. 1.5-2 cm long, included in the calyx; carpophore glabrous, c. 3 mm long. Seeds rounded-ovate, c. 2.5 mm long, peltate, black, finely papillate.
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