中文名（Chinese Name）：长蕊石头花
学名（Scientific Name）：Gypsophila oldhamiana Miq.
英文名（English Common Name）：Oldham's baby's-breath
别名（Chinese Common Name）：石头花
异名（Synonym）：
科属（Family & Genus）：石竹科（Caryophyllaceae）石头花属
形态特征（Description）：多年生草本，高60-100厘米。根粗壮，木质化，淡褐色至灰褐色。茎数个由根颈处生出，二歧或三歧分枝，开展，老茎常红紫色。叶片近革质，稍厚，长圆形，长4-8厘米，宽5-15毫米，顶端短凸尖，基部稍狭，两叶基相连成短鞘状，微抱茎，脉3-5条，中脉明显，上部叶较狭，近线形。伞房状聚伞花序较密集，顶生或腋生，无毛；花梗长2-5毫米，直伸，无毛或疏生短柔毛；苞片卵状披针形，长渐尖尾状，膜质，大多具缘毛；花萼钟形或漏斗状，长2-3毫米，萼齿卵状三角形，略急尖，脉绿色，伸达齿端，边缘白色，膜质，具缘毛；花瓣粉红色，倒卵状长圆形，顶端截形或微凹，长于花萼1倍；雄蕊长于花瓣；子房倒卵球形，花柱长线形，伸出。蒴果卵球形，稍长于宿存萼，顶端4裂；种子近肾形，长1.2-1.5毫米，灰褐色，两侧压扁，具条状凸起，脊部具短尖的小疣状凸起。花期6-9月，果期8-10月。
分布（Distribution）：产辽宁、河北、山西、陕西、山东、江苏及河南，生于海拔2000米以下山坡草地、灌丛或乱石滩等处。朝鲜也有。
用途（Use）：
引自中国植物志英文版FOC Vol. 6 Page 110
Gypsophila oldhamiana Miquel, Ann. Mus. Bot. Lugduno-Batavi. 3: 187. 1867.
长蕊石头花 chang rui shi tou hua | Caryophyllaceae  | Gypsophila
Herbs perennial, 60--100 cm tall. Roots brownish or brown-gray, thick, woody. Stems several, arising from root crown, dichotomously or trichotomously spreading branched, usually purple-red when mature. Leaves oblong, 4--8 × 0.5--1.5 cm, thick, subfleshy, 3--5-veined, midvein prominent, base connate into a short sheath, apex apiculate. Corymbose cymes terminal or axillary, dense, glabrous; bracts ovate-lanceolate, membranous, margin ciliate, apex caudate-acuminate. Pedicel 2--5 mm, glabrous or pubescent. Calyx campanulate or funnelform, 2--3 mm; lobes ovate-triangular, veins green, margin white, membranous, ciliate, apex acute. Petals pink, obovate-oblong, ca. 2 × as long as calyx, apex truncate or retuse. Stamens longer than petals. Ovary obovoid. Styles exserted, long linear. Capsule ovoid, slightly longer than calyx. Seeds brown-gray, compressed subreniform, 1.2--1.5 mm, with striate protuberances; raphe mucronate tuberculate. Fl. Jun--Sep, fr. Aug--Oct.
Scrub, mountain slope grasslands, rocks, maritime sands; sea level to 2000 m. Anhui, Hebei, Henan, Hubei, Jiangsu, Liaoning, Shaanxi, Shandong, Shanxi [Korea].
The roots are used medicinally and the species is cultivated as an ornamental.（责任编辑：徐晔春）