Dianthus lusitanusBrot.

WFO wfo-0000643814 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Dianthus lusitanus, photographed by Carminda Santos
fig. a Carminda Santos, CC BY 4.0 / 2021-07-10 / obs. 142920920
Dianthus lusitanus, photographed by Carminda Santos
fig. b Carminda Santos, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 133069454
Dianthus lusitanus, photographed by Carminda Santos
fig. c Carminda Santos, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 126713594
Dianthus lusitanus, photographed by Rafael Medina
fig. d Rafael Medina, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 58687783
Dianthus lusitanus, photographed by Rafael Medina
fig. e Rafael Medina, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 58687837
Dianthus lusitanus, photographed by Olivier Argagnon
fig. f Olivier Argagnon, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 58222165
Dianthus lusitanus, photographed by Daniel Heras González
fig. g Daniel Heras González, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 112260653
Dianthus lusitanus, photographed by Sandy Rae
fig. h Sandy Rae, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 79354949

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Native range 4 botanical countries

Regions where Dianthus lusitanus is native: Algeria, Morocco, Portugal, Spain AlgeriaMoroccoPortugalSpain
Native distribution of Dianthus lusitanus, 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
Algeria ALG AFRICA
Morocco MOR
Portugal POR EUROPE
Spain SPA

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 105 in flower of 106 examined

Peak flowering in May. Each bar is the share of Dianthus lusitanus 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. 105 of 106 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 6 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 atlanticus Romo
  • Dianthus bolivaris Sennen
  • Dianthus lusitanus var. imberbis Maire
  • Dianthus lusitanus var. latifolius Maire
  • Dianthus lusitanus var. tamarutii Caball.
  • Dianthus sidi-tualii Font Quer

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.

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