Silene virginicaL.

fire pink

WFO wfo-0001291562 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h

Silene virginica, photographed by Ryan Sorrells
fig. a Ryan Sorrells, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-06-12 / obs. 205832983
Silene virginica, photographed by pmrsco
fig. b pmrsco, CC0 1.0 / obs. 202846887
Silene virginica, photographed by Philip Curley
fig. c Philip Curley, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 205182054
Silene virginica, photographed by Daniel S. Katz
fig. d Daniel S. Katz, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 201699180
Silene virginica, photographed by sarahalder
fig. e sarahalder, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 203367073
Silene virginica, photographed by Miranda Kohout
fig. f Miranda Kohout, CC0 1.0 / obs. 199841434
Silene virginica, photographed by Dawn VanDeman
fig. g Dawn VanDeman, CC0 1.0 / obs. 203669054
Silene virginica, photographed by Derek Hennen
fig. h Derek Hennen, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 201689414

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Flowering n = 5,808 observations

Peak flowering in Apr, from 5,808 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 5 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.

  • Melandrium virginicum A.Braun
  • Silene catesbaei Walter
  • Silene coccinea Moench
  • Silene virginica var. hallensis Pickens & M.C.W.Pickens
  • Silene virginica var. robusta Strausb. & Core

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.