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|accepted_name=Petrorhagia prolifera
|accepted_authority=(Linnaeus) P. W. Ball & Heywood
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Bull. Brit. Mus. (Nat. Hist.), Bot.
|place=3: 161. 1964
|year=1964
}}
|common_names=Proliferous or childing pink
|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Basionym
|name=Dianthus prolifer
|authority=Linnaeus
|publication_title=Sp. Pl.
|publication_place=1: 410. 1753
}}
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Kohlrauschia prolifera
|authority=(Linnaeus) Kunth
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|name=Tunica prolifera
|authority=(Linnaeus) Scopoli
}}
|hierarchy=Caryophyllaceae;Caryophyllaceae subfam. Caryophylloideae;Petrorhagia;Petrorhagia prolifera
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Caryophyllaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>subfamily</small>[[Caryophyllaceae subfam. Caryophylloideae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Petrorhagia]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Petrorhagia prolifera]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 5
|mention_page=page 95, 163, 165
|treatment_page=page 164
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>annual. <b>Stems</b> erect, simple or branched, (6–)20–30(–60) cm; internodes glabrous or midstem ones slightly scabrous. <b>Leaves</b>: sheath 1–2 mm, ± as long as wide; blade 3-veined, linear to linear-lanceolate, 10–30 mm, margins serrate-scabrous. <b>Inflorescences</b> capitate; inflorescence bracts and involucel bracteoles enclosing flowers, broadly ovate, brown-scarious, apex obtuse or of outer bracts mucronate. <b>Pedicels</b> 0.1–1.5 mm. <b>Flowers</b>: sepals (7–)10–12 mm; petals pink to slightly purplish (rarely white), primary veins 1, veins not darkly colored near base of blade, apex truncate or emarginate. <b>Seeds</b> shield-shaped, 1.1–1.6(–1.8) mm, fine to coarsely reticulate. <b>2n</b> = 30 (Europe).</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering summer.
|habitat=Roadsides, ballast, fields
|elevation=0-1100 m
|distribution=B.C.;Ala.;Ark.;Del.;Ga.;Idaho;Ky.;Md.;Mich.;Mo.;N.J.;N.Y.;N.C.;Okla.;Pa.;Tenn.;Va.;c;s Eurasia;introduced in Europe (Great Britain).
|discussion=<p>Historical records for <i>Petrorhagia prolifera</i> exist also for California (1902; Congdon s.n., MIN), Ohio (last collected in 1896; Stair s.n., OS), and South Carolina (1800s; Durand s.n., NY).</p><!--
--><p><i>Petrorhagia prolifera</i> has been known in the northeastern United States since at least 1837, and its range has since expanded, with isolated populations occurring southwestward from New Jersey toward Arkansas and Oklahoma as well as western Michigan. Some introductions may have been as a contaminant in grass seed used for highway planting in Tennessee (B. E. Wofford et al. 1977). Literature reports of <i>P. prolifera</i> in Louisiana and West Virginia have not been confirmed.</p>
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name=Petrorhagia prolifera
|author=
|authority=(Linnaeus) P. W. Ball & Heywood
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=Kohlrauschia prolifera;Tunica prolifera
|basionyms=Dianthus prolifer
|family=Caryophyllaceae
|phenology=Flowering summer.
|habitat=Roadsides, ballast, fields
|elevation=0-1100 m
|distribution=B.C.;Ala.;Ark.;Del.;Ga.;Idaho;Ky.;Md.;Mich.;Mo.;N.J.;N.Y.;N.C.;Okla.;Pa.;Tenn.;Va.;c;s Eurasia;introduced in Europe (Great Britain).
|introduced=true
|reference=None
|publication title=Bull. Brit. Mus. (Nat. Hist.), Bot.
|publication year=1964
|special status=
|source xml=https://jpend@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation.git/src/f6b125a955440c0872999024f038d74684f65921/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V5/V5_336.xml
|subfamily=Caryophyllaceae subfam. Caryophylloideae
|genus=Petrorhagia
|species=Petrorhagia prolifera
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