Anthemis creticaL.

WFO wfo-0000023915 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY / CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 2 observations

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 2 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.

Anthemis cretica, photographed by Emanuele Santarelli
fig. a Emanuele Santarelli, CC BY-SA 4.0 / 2021-07-21 / obs. 145354784
Anthemis cretica, photographed by Thomas Koffel
fig. b Thomas Koffel, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 8727682
Anthemis cretica, photographed by Emanuele Santarelli
fig. c Emanuele Santarelli, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 145354791
Anthemis cretica, photographed by Thomas Koffel
fig. d Thomas Koffel, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 8727685
Anthemis cretica, photographed by Emanuele Santarelli
fig. e Emanuele Santarelli, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 145354788
Anthemis cretica, photographed by Thomas Koffel
fig. f Thomas Koffel, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 8727690
Anthemis cretica, photographed by Emanuele Santarelli
fig. g Emanuele Santarelli, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 145354833
Anthemis cretica, photographed by Emanuele Santarelli
fig. h Emanuele Santarelli, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 145354840

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Native range 21 botanical countries

Regions where Anthemis cretica is native: Algeria, East Aegean Is., Iran, Lebanon-Syria, North Caucasus, Transcaucasus, Türkiye, Albania, Austria, Bulgaria, France, Greece, Italy, Kriti, NW. Balkan Pen., Poland, Romania, Sicilia, Spain, Türkiye-in-Europe, Ukraine AlgeriaEast Aegean Is.IranLebanon-SyriaNorth CaucasusTranscaucasusTürkiyeAlbaniaAustriaBulgariaFranceGreeceItalyKritiNW. Balkan Pen.PolandRomaniaSiciliaSpainTürkiye-in-EuropeUkraine
Native distribution of Anthemis cretica, 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.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Albania ALB EUROPE
Austria AUT
Bulgaria BUL
France FRA
Greece GRC
Italy ITA
Kriti KRI
NW. Balkan Pen. YUG
Poland POL
Romania ROM
Sicilia SIC
Spain SPA
Türkiye-in-Europe TUE
Ukraine UKR
East Aegean Is. EAI ASIA-TEMPERATE
Iran IRN
Lebanon-Syria LBS
North Caucasus NCS
Transcaucasus TCS
Türkiye TUR
Algeria ALG AFRICA

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 43 observations

Condition 5th percentile Median 95th percentile
Coldest month, mean daily low -16.4 °C -4.4 °C 7.7 °C
Warmest month, mean daily high 13.3 °C 23.1 °C 28.0 °C
Annual rainfall 573 mm 930 mm 2,500 mm
Rainfall in the driest quarter 5 mm 168 mm 532 mm

It is found where winters are severely cold. This is not care advice and it is not a forecast. It is a measurement: we sampled the climate at every one of the 43 research-grade observations of Anthemis cretica 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 138 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.

  • Anthemis abrotanifolia Willk.
  • Anthemis abrotanifolia subsp. panachaica (Halácsy) Govaerts
  • Anthemis albida Boiss.
  • Anthemis amasiana Hausskn. & Bornm. ex Bornm.
  • Anthemis anacyclus J.Gay ex Boiss.
  • Anthemis anahytae Woronow ex Fed.
  • Anthemis anahytae Woronow ex Sosn.
  • Anthemis anatolica Boiss.
  • Anthemis anatolica f. anatolica
  • Anthemis anatolica f. discoidea (Boiss.) R.Fern.
  • Anthemis anatolica var. anatolica
  • Anthemis argaea Boiss. & Balansa
  • Anthemis baumgarteniana Schur
  • Anthemis blancheana Boiss.
  • Anthemis byzantina K.Koch
  • Anthemis calabrica (Arcang.) Brullo, Scelsi & Spamp.
  • Anthemis calabrica (Arcang.) Brullo, Scelsi & Spamp.
  • Anthemis candicans Boiss.
  • Anthemis carpatica Waldst. & Kit. ex Willd.
  • Anthemis carpatica f. alibotusensis (Thin) Kuzmanov & Gussev
  • Anthemis carpatica f. carpatica
  • Anthemis carpatica f. nigra Thin
  • Anthemis carpatica f. puberula Thin
  • Anthemis carpatica subsp. carpatica

and 114 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. 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.