Dianthus cruentusGriseb.

WFO wfo-0000643409 Accepted WFO 2026-06 5 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–e · 1 observation

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 1 time, so some figures below are different views of the same plant, taken on the same day, rather than different individuals. They are usually different parts of it: the leaf, the flower, the bark.

Dianthus cruentus, photographed by Kostas Zontanos
fig. a Kostas Zontanos, CC BY 4.0 / 2016-06-12 / obs. 12096255
Dianthus cruentus, photographed by Kostas Zontanos
fig. b Kostas Zontanos, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 12096284
Dianthus cruentus, photographed by Kostas Zontanos
fig. c Kostas Zontanos, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 12096265
Dianthus cruentus, photographed by Kostas Zontanos
fig. d Kostas Zontanos, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 12096260
Dianthus cruentus, photographed by Kostas Zontanos
fig. e Kostas Zontanos, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 12096229

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Native range 8 botanical countries

Regions where Dianthus cruentus is native: Iran, Transcaucasus, Türkiye, Albania, Bulgaria, Greece, NW. Balkan Pen., Türkiye-in-Europe IranTranscaucasusTürkiyeAlbaniaBulgariaGreeceNW. Balkan Pen.Türkiye-in-Europe
Native distribution of Dianthus cruentus, 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.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Albania ALB EUROPE
Bulgaria BUL
Greece GRC
NW. Balkan Pen. YUG
Türkiye-in-Europe TUE
Iran IRN ASIA-TEMPERATE
Transcaucasus TCS
Türkiye TUR

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.

Also published as 15 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 baldaccii Degen
  • Dianthus brachyzonus Borbás ex Formánek
  • Dianthus brachyzonus subsp. villiger (Bornm.) Micevski
  • Dianthus calocephalus var. villiger Bornm.
  • Dianthus cibrarius var. leucolepis Hausskn.
  • Dianthus consanguineus Schur
  • Dianthus cruentus subsp. turcicus (Velen.) Stoj. & Acht.
  • Dianthus cruentus var. micropetalus Pančić
  • Dianthus fastigiatus Pant.
  • Dianthus holzmannianus Heldr. & Hausskn. ex Nyman
  • Dianthus hyalolepis Acht. & Lindtner
  • Dianthus lateritius Halácsy
  • Dianthus quadrangulus Velen.
  • Dianthus turcicus Velen.
  • Dianthus villiger (Bornm.) Bornm.

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. 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.

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