Ammi majusL.

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WFO wfo-0000531157 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Ammi majus, photographed by Shaun Swanepoel
fig. a Shaun Swanepoel, CC BY 4.0 / 2021-12-18 / obs. 172990377
Ammi majus, photographed by Shaun Swanepoel
fig. b Shaun Swanepoel, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 168469600
Ammi majus, photographed by Piermario Maculan
fig. c Piermario Maculan, CC0 1.0 / obs. 162546567
Ammi majus, photographed by Matteo Marcandella
fig. d Matteo Marcandella, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 142878972
Ammi majus, photographed by Oleg Kosterin
fig. e Oleg Kosterin, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 178586354
Ammi majus, photographed by Eleftherios Katsillis
fig. f Eleftherios Katsillis, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 122916141
Ammi majus, photographed by Eleftherios Katsillis
fig. g Eleftherios Katsillis, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 122425938
Ammi majus, photographed by Eleftherios Katsillis
fig. h Eleftherios Katsillis, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 121391908

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Native range 36 botanical countries

Regions where Ammi majus is native: Algeria, Azores, Canary Is., Egypt, Libya, Madeira, Morocco, Selvagens, Tunisia, Cyprus, East Aegean Is., Gulf States, Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Lebanon-Syria, Oman, Palestine, Saudi Arabia, Sinai, Türkiye, Turkmenistan, Yemen, Albania, Baleares, Corse, France, Greece, Italy, Kriti, NW. Balkan Pen., Portugal, Sardegna, Sicilia, Spain, Türkiye-in-Europe AlgeriaEgyptLibyaMoroccoSelvagensTunisiaCyprusEast Aegean Is.Gulf StatesIranIraqKuwaitLebanon-SyriaOmanPalestineSaudi ArabiaSinaiTürkiyeTurkmenistanYemenAlbaniaCorseFranceGreeceItalyKritiNW. Balkan Pen.PortugalSiciliaSpainTürkiye-in-Europe AzoresCanary Is.MadeiraBalearesSardegna
Native distribution of Ammi majus, 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. Regions too small to draw at this scale are marked with a dot.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Cyprus CYP ASIA-TEMPERATE
East Aegean Is. EAI
Gulf States GST
Iran IRN
Iraq IRQ
Kuwait KUW
Lebanon-Syria LBS
Oman OMA
Palestine PAL
Saudi Arabia SAU
Sinai SIN
Türkiye TUR
Turkmenistan TKM
Yemen YEM
Albania ALB EUROPE
Baleares BAL
Corse COR
France FRA
Greece GRC
Italy ITA
Kriti KRI
NW. Balkan Pen. YUG
Portugal POR
Sardegna SAR
Sicilia SIC
Spain SPA
Türkiye-in-Europe TUE
Algeria ALG AFRICA
Azores AZO
Canary Is. CNY
Egypt EGY
Libya LBY
Madeira MDR
Morocco MOR
Selvagens SEL
Tunisia TUN

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 140 in flower of 150 examined

Peak flowering in Jan. Each bar is the share of Ammi majus 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. 140 of 150 examined observations were in flower, every one of them research grade. The whisker on each bar is a 95% Wilson interval. One month has fewer than 5 examined observations, so no proportion is drawn for it. 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 55 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.

  • Aethusa ammi (L.) Spreng.
  • Ammi apiifolium Hoffmanns. & Link
  • Ammi boeberi Hell. ex Hoffm.
  • Ammi broussonetii DC.
  • Ammi cicutifolium Willd. ex Roem. & Schult.
  • Ammi diversifolium var. daucifolium Noulet
  • Ammi diversifolium var. glaucifolium (L.) Noulet
  • Ammi elatum Salisb.
  • Ammi glaucifolium L.
  • Ammi intermedium DC.
  • Ammi majus subsp. glaucifolium (L.) Nyman
  • Ammi majus subsp. intermedium (DC.) Arcang.
  • Ammi majus var. apiifolium (Hoffmanns. & Link) Cout.
  • Ammi majus var. daucifolium (Noulet) Litard.
  • Ammi majus var. genuinum Gren. & Godr.
  • Ammi majus var. glaucifolium (L.) Noulet
  • Ammi majus var. glaucifolium (L.) Mérat
  • Ammi majus var. heterophyllum Lowe
  • Ammi majus var. intermedium (DC.) Gren. & Godr.
  • Ammi majus var. isophyllum Lowe
  • Ammi majus var. laciniatum Godr.
  • Ammi majus var. serratum Mutel
  • Ammi majus var. tenue Ball
  • Ammi majus var. tenuifolium Lowe

and 31 more.

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. Wikidata. common name (P1843), joined on the World Flora Online identifier (P7715). CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-13.
  4. 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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