Dianthus armeriaL.

Deptford pink

WFO wfo-0000643086 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h

Dianthus armeria, photographed by Ryan Sorrells
fig. a Ryan Sorrells, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-06-11 / obs. 205672881
Dianthus armeria, photographed by Mark Apgar
fig. b Mark Apgar, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 205223612
Dianthus armeria, photographed by Pete Bradshaw
fig. c Pete Bradshaw, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 205171263
Dianthus armeria, photographed by mefisher
fig. d mefisher, CC0 1.0 / obs. 205023755
Dianthus armeria, photographed by goldfjnch
fig. e goldfjnch, CC0 1.0 / obs. 204633607
Dianthus armeria, photographed by john_hall
fig. f john_hall, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 203321842
Dianthus armeria, photographed by Clay Gibbons
fig. g Clay Gibbons, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 204497488
Dianthus armeria, photographed by Anne Parker
fig. h Anne Parker, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 202130313

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Flowering n = 5,456 observations

Peak flowering in Jun, from 5,456 community-annotated observations worldwide. This is a global aggregate, not a forecast for your garden: the same species flowers on different dates in different hemispheres, and citizen-science records cluster near cities, at weekends, and in spring. Where a species has fewer than 30 annotated records we do not draw this chart at all.

Also published as 21 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Caryophyllus armerius (L.) Moench
  • Cylichnanthus maculatus Dulac
  • Dianthus armeria f. acaulis Bolzon
  • Dianthus armeria f. alba Stritch
  • Dianthus armeria f. albiviridis Lehr
  • Dianthus armeria f. caespitosa Bolzon
  • Dianthus armeria f. glabrissimus Sigunov
  • Dianthus armeria subsp. armeria
  • Dianthus armeria subsp. armeriastrum (Wolfner) Velen.
  • Dianthus armeria var. laevis Heuff.
  • Dianthus armeriastrum Wolfner
  • Dianthus carolinianus Walter
  • Dianthus epirotus Halácsy
  • Dianthus hirsutus Lam.
  • Dianthus hirtus Lam.
  • Dianthus hybridus F.W.Schmidt ex Tausch
  • Dianthus pseudocorymbosus Velen.
  • Dianthus villosus Gilib.
  • Dianthus vivariensis Jord. ex Boreau
  • Gypsophila armeria var. nanus Boenn.
  • Silene vaga E.H.L.Krause

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice, no toxicity claim and no native range, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.