NOTTNICK said:


Seen in the gardens at Cottesbrooke today.

www.bellows.org.uk/misc/flower.jpg


Something in the Pinks family (Caryophyllaceae), I think.

Possibly a white culitvar of Lychnis (campion) or Agrostemma
(corncockle)?

Plant trivia: 'Pink' originally refered to the *notching* found on
the flower petals, and only later came to mean the *color* that is
typical of most pinks. (The older meaning of the word continues
in use for the special type of scissors known as "pinking shears.")

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Pat in Plymouth MI

"Vegetables are like bombs packed tight with all kinds of important
nutrients..." --Largo Potter, Valkyria Chronicles

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