Once common, it has been lost from many sites. Losses continue and it currently occupies only 7% of its total historic area, with many of these populations being very small. Deptford pink is now extinct in Scotland and is not found in Northern Ireland.

Plant Life 2010 http://www.plantlife.org.uk/wild_plants/plant_species/deptford_pink

Key threats: conversion of traditional pasture to arable fields or forestry; and building on former pasture land.

Plant Life 2010 http://www.plantlife.org.uk/wild_plants/plant_species/deptford_pink

Di+anthos Greek for 'of Zeus'+'flower'. Armeria is a latinisation of the old French name 'armoires' a cluster headed Dianthus.

Stearn, W.T.. (1992). Stearn's Dictionary of Plant Names for Gardeners. Cassell.

Asia-Temperate, Caucasus, North Caucasus

Asia-Temperate, Caucasus, Transcaucasus

Asia-Temperate, Western Asia, Iran

Asia-Temperate, Western Asia, Turkey

Europe, Eastern Europe

Europe, Middle Europe

Europe, Northern Europe

Europe, Northern Europe, Great Britain

Europe, Southeastern Europe

Europe, Southwestern Europe