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Feathered pink has favorable fire ratings from university extension guides for Montana and Michigan.
Michigan State University includes Dianthus plumarius in its wildfire-resistant plant table and recommends it for Michigan's climate. Montana State's guide likewise lists the species among fire-resistant plants adapted to Montana. Both judgments are regional recommendations for the same perennial rather than a claim about every member of the pink family.
In both cases, the recommendation belongs with its stated growing region. The two guides include feathered pink directly, so their agreement provides a specific answer for Dianthus plumarius rather than requiring a conclusion from a closely related plant.
These two sources point in the same favorable direction. For a gardener considering the perennial, they offer regional support for choosing feathered pink in fire-conscious planting, with each recommendation retaining the climate context in which its extension service presents it.
Form
perennial
Rated in
Michigan / Great Lakes; Montana / Northern Rockies; Utah / Intermountain West
On this lot
1. Fire evidence and conditions
Fire evidence
Fire-resistant — location does not change the cited classification.
Fire-performance conditions
Fire ecology context
Placement evidence
Evidence regions
Michigan / Great Lakes; Montana / Northern Rockies; Utah / Intermountain West
Maintenance
Typed publication scope: 3 scopes across 3 cited fire sources
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.
The April 2022 MontGuide explicitly presents fire-resistant species adapted to Montana. FireApproved publishes 92 exact plant records from the source while retaining excluded genus, family, and unresolved rows; the guide itself says not every listed species grows in every part of the state.
Utah State University Extension states that this fact sheet selects examples for Utah landscapes and that they require proper placement and maintenance. FireApproved publishes 83 exact source owners at Utah publication scope. The table is not a site-specific planting clearance.
2. Why this plant is relevant here
State distribution
Documented in AL, CA, CT, IL, IN, KY, MA, MD, ME, MI, MO, NC, ND, NH, NY, OH, PA, SC, VA, VT, WI.
Native range
Introduced / established
17 sourced range or established records. This is not an invasive warning.
USDA hardiness
Documented range 3–8.
3. Legal, ecological, and broader status
Legal-list status
Seed-list status
Reported invasive here
Broader regional context
Federal context
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.
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.
3–8 explicit range · whole zone precision · source stated
Source taxon: Dianthus plumarius · exact match.
Source location: Table 1, perennial row.
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.
Source says the plant can be firewise when properly used and maintained. The source marks this row as potentially weedy or legally restricted. Source table name: Dianthus plumarius & others.
