Bunium ferulaceumSm.

WFO wfo-0000574867 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY

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.

Bunium ferulaceum, photographed by Eleftherios Katsillis
fig. a Eleftherios Katsillis, CC BY 4.0 / 2021-04-23 / obs. 122714724
Bunium ferulaceum, photographed by Eleftherios Katsillis
fig. b Eleftherios Katsillis, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 117884819
Bunium ferulaceum, photographed by Eleftherios Katsillis
fig. c Eleftherios Katsillis, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 122714782
Bunium ferulaceum, photographed by Eleftherios Katsillis
fig. d Eleftherios Katsillis, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 117884874
Bunium ferulaceum, photographed by Eleftherios Katsillis
fig. e Eleftherios Katsillis, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 122714596
Bunium ferulaceum, photographed by Eleftherios Katsillis
fig. f Eleftherios Katsillis, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 117884913
Bunium ferulaceum, photographed by Eleftherios Katsillis
fig. g Eleftherios Katsillis, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 122714915
Bunium ferulaceum, photographed by Eleftherios Katsillis
fig. h Eleftherios Katsillis, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 117884958

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Native range 12 botanical countries

Regions where Bunium ferulaceum is native: Cyprus, East Aegean Is., Lebanon-Syria, Palestine, Transcaucasus, Türkiye, Bulgaria, Greece, Kriti, Krym, NW. Balkan Pen., Türkiye-in-Europe CyprusEast Aegean Is.Lebanon-SyriaPalestineTranscaucasusTürkiyeBulgariaGreeceKritiKrymNW. Balkan Pen.Türkiye-in-Europe
Native distribution of Bunium ferulaceum, 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
Cyprus CYP ASIA-TEMPERATE
East Aegean Is. EAI
Lebanon-Syria LBS
Palestine PAL
Transcaucasus TCS
Türkiye TUR
Bulgaria BUL EUROPE
Greece GRC
Kriti KRI
Krym KRY
NW. Balkan Pen. YUG
Türkiye-in-Europe TUE

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 20 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.

  • Apium ferulaceum Caruel
  • Bulbocastanum ferulaceum Nyman
  • Bulbocastanum incrassatum Lange
  • Bunium brachycarpum (Boiss.) Freyn & Sint.
  • Bunium divaricatum Bertol.
  • Bunium ferulaceum f. pumilum (Chaub. & Bory) H.Wolff
  • Bunium ferulaceum var. brachycarpum (Boiss.) H.Wolff
  • Bunium ferulifolium Desf.
  • Bunium ferulifolium f. pumilum Chaub. & Bory
  • Bunium incrassatum Batt.
  • Bunium incrassatum Amo
  • Bunium majus M.Bieb.
  • Carum brachycarpum Boiss.
  • Carum divaricatum W.D.J.Koch
  • Carum ferulaceum Janch.
  • Carum ferulifolium (Desf.) Boiss.
  • Carum incrassatum Boiss.
  • Diaphycarpus incrassatus Calest.
  • Pimpinella ferulifolia (Desf.) Stokes
  • Sium ferulifolium (Desf.) 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. 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.

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