Dianthus chinensisL.

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WFO wfo-0000643302 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Dianthus chinensis, photographed by Aleksei Baushev
fig. a Aleksei Baushev, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-06-11 / obs. 205251888
Dianthus chinensis, photographed by Aleksei Baushev
fig. b Aleksei Baushev, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 205235438
Dianthus chinensis, photographed by Aleksei Baushev
fig. c Aleksei Baushev, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 205253318
Dianthus chinensis, photographed by Valentin Kosterin
fig. d Valentin Kosterin, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 173366897
Dianthus chinensis, photographed by Михаил Малышев
fig. e Михаил Малышев, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 161311423
Dianthus chinensis, photographed by Aleksei Baushev
fig. f Aleksei Baushev, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 159625935
Dianthus chinensis, photographed by Ксения Волянская
fig. g Ксения Волянская, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 159194455
Dianthus chinensis, photographed by Aleksei Baushev
fig. h Aleksei Baushev, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 158455192

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Native range 33 botanical countries

Regions where Dianthus chinensis is native: Altay, Amur, Buryatiya, China North-Central, China Southeast, Chita, Inner Mongolia, Irkutsk, Kazakhstan, Khabarovsk, Korea, Krasnoyarsk, Manchuria, Mongolia, Primorye, Qinghai, Turkmenistan, Tuva, West Siberia, Xinjiang, Yakutiya, Assam, East Himalaya, India, Nepal, Vietnam, West Himalaya, Central European Russia, East European Russia, Krym, Northwest European Russia, South European Russia, Ukraine AltayAmurBuryatiyaChina North-CentralChina SoutheastChitaInner MongoliaIrkutskKazakhstanKhabarovskKrasnoyarskManchuriaMongoliaPrimoryeQinghaiTurkmenistanTuvaWest SiberiaXinjiangYakutiyaAssamEast HimalayaIndiaNepalVietnamWest HimalayaCentral European RussiaEast European RussiaKrymNorthwest European RussiaSouth European RussiaUkraine Korea
Native distribution of Dianthus chinensis, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows. Regions too small to draw at this scale are marked with a dot.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Altay ALT ASIA-TEMPERATE
Amur AMU
Buryatiya BRY
China North-Central CHN
China Southeast CHS
Chita CTA
Inner Mongolia CHI
Irkutsk IRK
Kazakhstan KAZ
Khabarovsk KHA
Korea KOR
Krasnoyarsk KRA
Manchuria CHM
Mongolia MON
Primorye PRM
Qinghai CHQ
Turkmenistan TKM
Tuva TVA
West Siberia WSB
Xinjiang CHX
Yakutiya YAK
Assam ASS ASIA-TROPICAL
East Himalaya EHM
India IND
Nepal NEP
Vietnam VIE
West Himalaya WHM
Central European Russia RUC EUROPE
East European Russia RUE
Krym KRY
Northwest European Russia RUW
South European Russia RUS
Ukraine UKR

Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.

Flowering 444 in flower of 445 examined

Peak flowering in Jun. Each bar is the share of Dianthus chinensis observations in which someone actually recorded the reproductive state and found the plant in flower, not the raw number of flowering records. That distinction matters: people observe plants far more in spring than in winter, so a bare count of flowering records partly measures when people go outside. Dividing by the number examined removes that. 444 of 445 examined observations were in flower, every one of them research grade. The whisker on each bar is a 95% Wilson interval. 6 months have fewer than 5 examined observations, so no proportion is drawn for them. This is still a global aggregate and not a forecast for your garden: the same species flowers on different dates in different hemispheres. Where a species has fewer than 30 flowering records we do not draw this chart at all. Computed from 10.15468/dl.cgje2x.

Also published as 48 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.

  • Dianthus altaicus Willd. ex Ledeb.
  • Dianthus chinensis f. albiflora Y.N.Lee
  • Dianthus chinensis f. ignescens (Nakai) Kitag.
  • Dianthus chinensis subsp. paracampestris Vorosch.
  • Dianthus chinensis subsp. versicolor (Fisch. ex Link) Vorosch.
  • Dianthus chinensis var. dentosus (Fisch. ex Rchb.) Debeaux
  • Dianthus chinensis var. ignescens Nakai
  • Dianthus chinensis var. jingpoensis G.Y.Zhang & X.Y.Yuan
  • Dianthus chinensis var. liaotungensis Y.C.Chu
  • Dianthus chinensis var. longisquama Nakai & Kitag.
  • Dianthus chinensis var. macrosepalus Franch. ex L.H.Bailey
  • Dianthus chinensis var. morii (Nakai) Y.C.Chu
  • Dianthus chinensis var. serpens Y.N.Lee
  • Dianthus chinensis var. shandongensis J.X.Li & F.Q.Zhou
  • Dianthus chinensis var. subulifolius (Kitag.) Y.C.Ma
  • Dianthus chinensis var. sylvaticus W.D.J.Koch
  • Dianthus chinensis var. trinervis D.Q.Lu
  • Dianthus chinensis var. versicolor (Fisch. ex Link) Y.C.Ma
  • Dianthus collinus var. scaber (Schleich. ex Suter) Gaudin
  • Dianthus dentosus Fisch. ex Rchb.
  • Dianthus fischeri Spreng.
  • Dianthus ibericus Willd.
  • Dianthus jeniseensis Less. ex Ledeb.
  • Dianthus laciniatus Makino

and 24 more.

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.
  3. Wikidata. common name (P1843), joined on the World Flora Online identifier (P7715). CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-13.
  4. Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.

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