Ammoides pusilla(Brot.) Breistr.

Cerfolium

WFO wfo-0000531207 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 6 observations

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 6 times, so some figures below are different views of the same plant, taken on the same day, rather than different individuals. They are usually different parts of it: the leaf, the flower, the bark.

Ammoides pusilla, photographed by Karim Haddad
fig. a Karim Haddad, CC BY 4.0 / 2021-05-27 / obs. 132000361
Ammoides pusilla, photographed by Mehdi Chetibi
fig. b Mehdi Chetibi, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 132382676
Ammoides pusilla, photographed by Mehdi Chetibi
fig. c Mehdi Chetibi, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 131498540
Ammoides pusilla, photographed by Karim Haddad
fig. d Karim Haddad, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 132000384
Ammoides pusilla, photographed by Mehdi Chetibi
fig. e Mehdi Chetibi, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 132382793
Ammoides pusilla, photographed by Karim Haddad
fig. f Karim Haddad, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 131980824
Ammoides pusilla, photographed by Mehdi Chetibi
fig. g Mehdi Chetibi, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 131833721
Ammoides pusilla, photographed by Mehdi Chetibi
fig. h Mehdi Chetibi, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 128577619

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Native range 15 botanical countries

Regions where Ammoides pusilla is native: Algeria, Egypt, Libya, Morocco, Tunisia, Albania, Corse, France, Greece, Italy, NW. Balkan Pen., Portugal, Sardegna, Sicilia, Spain AlgeriaEgyptLibyaMoroccoTunisiaAlbaniaCorseFranceGreeceItalyNW. Balkan Pen.PortugalSiciliaSpain Sardegna
Native distribution of Ammoides pusilla, 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
Albania ALB EUROPE
Corse COR
France FRA
Greece GRC
Italy ITA
NW. Balkan Pen. YUG
Portugal POR
Sardegna SAR
Sicilia SIC
Spain SPA
Algeria ALG AFRICA
Egypt EGY
Libya LBY
Morocco MOR
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.

Where it actually grows measured, from 33 observations

Condition 5th percentile Median 95th percentile
Coldest month, mean daily low 1.6 °C 5.3 °C 10.5 °C
Warmest month, mean daily high 22.2 °C 27.6 °C 34.2 °C
Annual rainfall 434 mm 717 mm 1,096 mm
Rainfall in the driest quarter 15 mm 37 mm 180 mm

It is found where winters are cool but frost is light or absent. This is not care advice and it is not a forecast. It is a measurement: we sampled the climate at every one of the 33 research-grade observations of Ammoides pusilla that carry a coordinate, and this is the range those places actually span. The 5th and 95th percentiles are used rather than the minimum and maximum, because a single cultivated specimen in a heated conservatory should not widen a tropical plant's range to the Arctic.

This is not a hardiness zone. A USDA zone is the average annual extreme minimum temperature. The figure above is the mean daily minimum of the coldest month, which is a different quantity and is typically far warmer. Reading one as the other would place a plant several zones too warm, so we do not publish a hardiness zone, because we do not have one.

Also published as 25 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.

  • Ammoides leiocarpa Lange
  • Ammoides pusilla var. trachysperma (Boiss.) Breistr.
  • Ammoides pusilla var. trachysperma (Boiss.) Molero Mesa & Pérez Raya
  • Ammoides verticillata (Desf.) Briq.
  • Ammoides verticillata f. elata Maire & Weiller
  • Ammoides verticillata var. pusilla (Pamp.) Breistr.
  • Ammoides verticillata var. trachysperma (Boiss.) Maire
  • Apium ammios Crantz
  • Apium ammoides Calest.
  • Bunium ammoides (L.) Ces.
  • Carum ammoides Benth. & Hook.f. ex Arcang.
  • Critamus ammoides (L.) Bluff, Nees & Schauer
  • Petroselinum ammoides (L.) Rchb.f.
  • Ptychotis ammoides var. pusilla Pamp.
  • Ptychotis amoides W.D.J.Koch
  • Ptychotis aspera Pomel
  • Ptychotis corsica (Besser) Paxton
  • Ptychotis morisiana Bég.
  • Ptychotis trachysperma Boiss.
  • Ptychotis verticillata Duby
  • Seseli ammi Steud.
  • Seseli ammoides Jacq.
  • Seseli corsicum Besser
  • Seseli pusillum Brot.

and 1 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.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice and no toxicity claim, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.