Sweet-William
Scientific Name: Dianthus barbatus
Popular garden flower. Many cultivars are available, including double-flowered and dwarf forms. Eurasian import.
Sweet-William
Scientific Name: Dianthus barbatus
Sweet-William
| Genus species: | Dianthus barbatus | |||||||||||
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| Common Name: | Sweet-William | |||||||||||
| Family Name: | Caryophyllaceae 
Annual or perennial herbs, often with swollen nodes; leaves opposite, simple, entire, stipules scarious or absent; flowers mostly bisexual, regular, solitary or in various clusters; fruit a capsule or 1-seeded utricle. | |||||||||||
| Seed Type | Angiosperm | |||||||||||
| Origin:
Native: native to North America. Non-native: not native to North America. Introduced Native: native to North America, but not Rowe Woods. * Definitions based on the USDA terminology |
Nonnative | |||||||||||
| Category: | Wildflower | |||||||||||
| Flower Color: | White Pink/Red Violet/Blue | |||||||||||
| Identified by: | J.D. Mancini | |||||||||||
| Months in Bloom The highlighted month(s) in this chart indicates the month(s) the plant has been observed blooming. | ||||||||||||
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