Anethum graveolens (dill)

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Anethum graveolens, photographed by Yurii Basov — fig. a Yurii Basov, CC BY 4.0 / 2020-06-13 / obs. 78894396

Anethum graveolens, photographed by Tomas Pocius — fig. b Tomas Pocius, CC0 1.0 / obs. 43906162

Anethum graveolens, photographed by Andreas Rockstein — fig. c Andreas Rockstein, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 12697830

Anethum graveolens, photographed by Peter de Lange — fig. f Peter de Lange, CC0 1.0 / obs. 2705615

Anethum graveolens, photographed by Radosław Puchałka — fig. g Radosław Puchałka, CC0 1.0 / obs. 139353309

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Native range 11 botanical countries

Native distribution of Anethum graveolens, 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.

Region	TDWG code	Continent
Cyprus	CYP	ASIA-TEMPERATE
Gulf States	GST
Iran	IRN
Lebanon-Syria	LBS
Oman	OMA
Saudi Arabia	SAU
Algeria	ALG	AFRICA
Chad	CHA
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.

Flowering 414 in flower of 591 examined

47%

31%

55%

84%

71%

74%

78%

83%

Proportion of examined Anethum graveolens in flower, by month
Month	In flower	Examined	Share	95% interval
Jan	0	3	too few examined
Feb	2	3	too few examined
Mar	2	4	too few examined
Apr	8	17	47%	26% to 69%
May	8	26	31%	17% to 50%
Jun	62	113	55%	46% to 64%
Jul	167	200	84%	78% to 88%
Aug	84	119	71%	62% to 78%
Sep	48	65	74%	62% to 83%
Oct	21	27	78%	59% to 89%
Nov	10	12	83%	55% to 95%
Dec	2	2	too few examined

Peak flowering in Jul. Each bar is the share of Anethum graveolens 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. 414 of 591 examined observations were in flower, every one of them research grade. The whisker on each bar is a 95% Wilson interval. 4 months have fewer than 5 examined observations, so no proportion is drawn for them. 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 29 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.

Anethum arvense Salisb.
Anethum graveolens subsp. australe Koren'
Anethum graveolens subsp. segetum (L.) Koren'
Anethum graveolens subsp. sowa (Roxb. ex Flem.) Koren'
Anethum graveolens var. anatolicum Koren'
Anethum graveolens var. chevallieri Maire
Anethum graveolens var. copiosum Koren'
Anethum graveolens var. hortorum Alef.
Anethum graveolens var. nanum Koren'
Anethum graveolens var. parvifolium Koren'
Anethum graveolens var. segetum (L.) Alef.
Anethum graveolens var. sowa (Roxb.) Alef.
Anethum graveolens var. submarginatum Lej.
Anethum graveolens var. tenerifrons Koren'
Anethum pusillum All.
Anethum segetum L.
Anethum sowa Roxb.
Angelica graveolens (L.) Steud.
Carum ridolfia Benth. & Hook.f.
Ferula graveolens (L.) Spreng.
Ferula marathrophylla Walp.
Pastinaca anethum (Roth) Spreng.
Pastinaca graveolens (L.) Bernh.
Peucedanum anethum (Roth) Jess.

and 5 more.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
Wikidata. common name (P1843), joined on the World Flora Online identifier (P7715). CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-13.
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.