Anthriscus nitidusGarcke

WFO wfo-0000538666 Accepted WFO 2026-06 5 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–e · 3 observations

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 3 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.

Anthriscus nitidus, photographed by Jason Grant
fig. a Jason Grant, CC BY 4.0 / 2018-06-07 / obs. 19321193
Anthriscus nitidus, photographed by Jens-Christian Svenning
fig. b Jens-Christian Svenning, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 199189123
Anthriscus nitidus, photographed by Jason Grant
fig. c Jason Grant, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 19321199
Anthriscus nitidus, photographed by Jens-Christian Svenning
fig. d Jens-Christian Svenning, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 199189000
Anthriscus nitidus, photographed by MartinHorák
fig. e MartinHorák, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 131033973

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Native range 15 botanical countries

Regions where Anthriscus nitidus is native: Austria, Baltic States, Belarus, Bulgaria, Czechia-Slovakia, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, NW. Balkan Pen., Poland, Romania, Switzerland, Ukraine AustriaBaltic StatesBelarusBulgariaCzechia-SlovakiaFranceGermanyGreeceHungaryItalyNW. Balkan Pen.PolandRomaniaSwitzerlandUkraine
Native distribution of Anthriscus nitidus, 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
Austria AUT EUROPE
Baltic States BLT
Belarus BLR
Bulgaria BUL
Czechia-Slovakia CZE
France FRA
Germany GER
Greece GRC
Hungary HUN
Italy ITA
NW. Balkan Pen. YUG
Poland POL
Romania ROM
Switzerland SWI
Ukraine UKR

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 98 observations

Condition 5th percentile Median 95th percentile
Coldest month, mean daily low -8.9 °C -6.0 °C -3.7 °C
Warmest month, mean daily high 17.7 °C 21.2 °C 24.4 °C
Annual rainfall 668 mm 1,053 mm 1,931 mm
Rainfall in the driest quarter 92 mm 194 mm 358 mm

It is found where winters bring hard frost. This is not care advice and it is not a forecast. It is a measurement: we sampled the climate at every one of the 98 research-grade observations of Anthriscus nitidus 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 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.

  • Anthriscus abortiva Jord.
  • Anthriscus alpestris Wimm. & Grab.
  • Anthriscus alpestris Hegetschw.
  • Anthriscus cicutaria (Vill.) Duby
  • Anthriscus dubius Kabath
  • Anthriscus hegetschweileri M.Hiroe
  • Anthriscus heterosanthus Schur
  • Anthriscus humilis Besser
  • Anthriscus nitens Bernh.
  • Anthriscus rupicola Godet
  • Anthriscus sylvestris prol. alpestris (Wimm. & Grab.) Rouy & E.G.Camus
  • Anthriscus sylvestris prol. cicutaria (Duby) Rouy & E.G.Camus
  • Anthriscus sylvestris subsp. alpestris (Wimm. & Grab.) Gremli
  • Anthriscus sylvestris subsp. candollei Rouy & E.G.Camus
  • Anthriscus sylvestris subsp. faurei Sennen
  • Anthriscus sylvestris var. alpestris (Wimm. & Grab.) Wimm.
  • Anthriscus sylvestris var. nitida (Wahlenb.) Briq.
  • Cerefolium nitidum (Wahlenb.) Čelak.
  • Chaerefolium alpestre (Wimm. & Grab.) Stankov
  • Chaerefolium nitidum (Wahlenb.) Domin
  • Chaerefolium sylvestre subsp. alpestre (Wimm. & Grab.) Schinz & Thell.
  • Chaerefolium sylvestre subsp. nitidum (Wahlenb.) Schinz & Thell.
  • Chaerophyllum daucifolium Desf.
  • Chaerophyllum nitens Turcz. ex Bernh.

and 5 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.