Deptford pink

Also known as Grass Pink

Deptford pink produces small clusters of bright magenta flowers speckled with tiny white dots, held atop slender, erect stems coated in soft downy hairs. Each individual flower blooms for just a single day, opening in early morning sunlight to attract hoverflies, sweat bees, and small butterflies. Though declining in parts of its native European range due to modern agricultural practices, it readily establishes in sunny, dry, disturbed soils like field margins and gravelly roadsides.