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maiden pink (Dianthus deltoides)
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maiden pink

Dianthus deltoides · Caryophyllaceae · all Dianthus records · also called Maiden pinks · Wikipedia

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Dianthus deltoides is on-list in the evidence table. The sourced listing leads this maiden pinks record without assigning the same status to every dianthus.

Two ecological invasive reports sit alongside a fire pack marked limited evidence. The accepted rows preserve the listing lineage separately, so the ecological count does not imply additional fire-performance evidence.

The related plants, range account, and genus collection provide comparison beyond the selected facts. Each route keeps its own scope rather than widening the species listing, source depth, or two-report total for this maiden pinks profile.

Form
perennial
Rated in
Michigan / Great Lakes
On this lot

1. Fire evidence and conditions

Fire evidence
Fire-resistant — location does not change the cited classification.
Evidence regions
Michigan / Great Lakes
Typed publication scope: 1 scope across 1 cited fire source
  • Wildfire-resistant Landscape Plants for Michigan (Extension Bulletin E2948) · Official scoped edition
    • MI; partial normalized coverage · 2007-01-01

      Michigan State University Extension Bulletin E2948 is explicitly a list of wildfire-resistant landscape plants for Michigan and includes a Michigan-native field. FireApproved publishes 221 exact GBIF owners from 226 represented source rows and holds 15 complex or non-exact rows. This dated publication scope is not a current site-suitability determination.

2. Why this plant is relevant here

State distribution
Documented in AR, CA, CO, CT, DC, ID, IL, KS, MA, MD, ME, MI, MN, MO, MT, NC, NH, NJ, NY, OH, OR, PA, VA, VT, WA, WI, WY.
Introduced / established
25 sourced range or established records. This is not an invasive warning.
USDA hardiness
Documented range 3–8.

3. Legal, ecological, and broader status

Reported invasive here
2 ecological invasive reports.
How to read this page

The status above is computed from the cited rows below: independent recommendations can support a fire-resistant result, an avoid row can produce keep-away, and disagreement stays visible as conflict. Placement notes preserve each source’s own scheme rather than translating unlike rules into one scale. This is evidence about a plant, not permission to plant it in every part of the defensible space; Zone 0 remains noncombustible.

Native and introduced range evidence

These are exact U.S. botanical-area records from the cited range source. Native and introduced describe biogeographic relationship, not fire performance or planting approval. Doubtful and extinct rows stay visible but do not count as current presence.

Current native

0

exact source areas

Current introduced

25

exact source areas

Qualified

0

doubtful or extinct source rows

25 introduced source areas · World Checklist of Vascular Plants, version 16 v16, as of 2026-06-04
  • Arkansas (AR)
  • California (CA)
  • Colorado (CO)
  • Connecticut (CT)
  • Iowa (IA)
  • Illinois (IL)
  • Massachusetts (MA)
  • Maine (ME)
  • Michigan (MI)
  • Minnesota (MN)
  • Missouri (MO)
  • Montana (MT)
  • North Carolina (NC)
  • New Hampshire (NH)
  • New Jersey (NJ)
  • New York (NY)
  • Ohio (OH)
  • Pennsylvania (PA)
  • Rhode I. (RI)
  • Utah (UT)
  • Virginia (VA)
  • Vermont (VT)
  • Washington (WA)
  • Wisconsin (WI)
  • Wyoming (WY)

The lossless worldwide derivative is retained once in the research corpus; object pages repeat only exact U.S. areas needed by the local lens. The JSON twin carries the same page assertions.

Plant hardiness evidence

These values describe the plant source. Your ZIP zone comes from the separate 2023 USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map. Whole-zone values stay whole-zone, and a single unresolved value is not treated as a tolerance range. Different source boundaries stay separate: overlapping statements are compared independently, while only ranges with no shared zone are called a conflict.

The evidence

Grouped by what each source concluded. Primary evidence rated the plant itself (a lab, field program, or original curation); corroboration compiled or republished another source's rating and resolves to its root lineage.

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Last verified 2026-08-23. JSON (CC BY 4.0)

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Dianthus deltoides (Maiden pinks). FireApproved. https://fireapproved.com/plants/dianthus-deltoides/. Last verified 2026-08-23.