Bunium bulbocastanumL.

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WFO wfo-0000574803 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 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.

Bunium bulbocastanum, photographed by Bastien Alegot
fig. a Bastien Alegot, CC BY 4.0 / 2021-02-28 / obs. 116197997
Bunium bulbocastanum, photographed by Jonathan Hughes
fig. b Jonathan Hughes, CC0 1.0 / obs. 140669236
Bunium bulbocastanum, photographed by Jonathan Hughes
fig. c Jonathan Hughes, CC0 1.0 / obs. 138157977
Bunium bulbocastanum, photographed by Jonathan Hughes
fig. d Jonathan Hughes, CC0 1.0 / obs. 140669280
Bunium bulbocastanum, photographed by Jonathan Hughes
fig. e Jonathan Hughes, CC0 1.0 / obs. 138158008
Bunium bulbocastanum, photographed by Jonathan Hughes
fig. f Jonathan Hughes, CC0 1.0 / obs. 138158052
Bunium bulbocastanum, photographed by Jonathan Hughes
fig. g Jonathan Hughes, CC0 1.0 / obs. 138158422
Bunium bulbocastanum, photographed by Jonathan Hughes
fig. h Jonathan Hughes, CC0 1.0 / obs. 138158461

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Native range 12 botanical countries

Regions where Bunium bulbocastanum is native: Baleares, Belgium, France, Germany, Great Britain, Greece, Italy, Netherlands, NW. Balkan Pen., Sardegna, Sicilia, Switzerland BelgiumFranceGermanyGreeceItalyNetherlandsNW. Balkan Pen.SiciliaSwitzerland BalearesSardegna
Native distribution of Bunium bulbocastanum, 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
Baleares BAL EUROPE
Belgium BGM
France FRA
Germany GER
Great Britain GRB
Greece GRC
Italy ITA
Netherlands NET
NW. Balkan Pen. YUG
Sardegna SAR
Sicilia SIC
Switzerland SWI

Not drawn on the map: Great Britain. We hold no public-domain boundary for this region, so it is listed rather than guessed at.

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.

Also published as 23 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.

  • Bulbocastanum linnaei Schur
  • Bulbocastanum linnaei var. gouanii Rouy & E.G.Camus
  • Bulbocastanum linnaei var. mediterraneum (A.Albert) Rouy & E.G.Camus
  • Bulbocastanum linnaei var. nanum (Cariot & St.-Lag.) Rouy & E.G.Camus
  • Bulbocastanum mediterraneum Albert
  • Bunium agrarium Albert
  • Bunium aphyllum Jan ex DC.
  • Bunium bulbocastanum var. aphyllum (Jan ex DC.) Fiori & Paol.
  • Bunium bulbocastanum var. baldense Rigo ex Huter
  • Bunium bulbocastanum var. genuinum Burnat
  • Bunium bulbocastanum var. mediterraneum (Albert) Reduron
  • Bunium bulbosum Dulac
  • Bunium collinum Albert
  • Bunium majus Vill.
  • Bunium mediterraneum Albert
  • Bunium minus Gouan
  • Carum bulbocastanum (L.) W.D.J.Koch
  • Carvi bulbocastanum (L.) Bubani
  • Ligusticum bulbocastanum (L.) Crantz
  • Pimpinella bulbocastanum (L.) Stokes
  • Scandix bulbocastanum (L.) Moench
  • Selinum bulbocastanum E.H.L.Krause
  • Sium bulbocastanum Spreng.

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.