Chaerophyllum aromaticumL.

WFO wfo-0000598938 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Chaerophyllum aromaticum, photographed by Анна Рыбакова
fig. a Анна Рыбакова, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-06-12 / obs. 205962591
Chaerophyllum aromaticum, photographed by Татьяна Максимова
fig. b Татьяна Максимова, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 198194920
Chaerophyllum aromaticum, photographed by Pavel Kacl
fig. c Pavel Kacl, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 194343972
Chaerophyllum aromaticum, photographed by Sigitas Juzėnas
fig. d Sigitas Juzėnas, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 166793694
Chaerophyllum aromaticum, photographed by Vladimír Fuka
fig. e Vladimír Fuka, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 154000773
Chaerophyllum aromaticum, photographed by Eugene Popov
fig. f Eugene Popov, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 151966277
Chaerophyllum aromaticum, photographed by Dmitriy Bochkov
fig. g Dmitriy Bochkov, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 160626173
Chaerophyllum aromaticum, photographed by Pavel Kacl
fig. h Pavel Kacl, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 149635928

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Native range 16 botanical countries

Regions where Chaerophyllum aromaticum is native: Albania, Austria, Baltic States, Belarus, Central European Russia, Czechia-Slovakia, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, North European Russia, Northwest European Russia, NW. Balkan Pen., Poland, Romania, Ukraine AlbaniaAustriaBaltic StatesBelarusCentral European RussiaCzechia-SlovakiaGermanyGreeceHungaryItalyNorth European RussiaNorthwest European RussiaNW. Balkan Pen.PolandRomaniaUkraine
Native distribution of Chaerophyllum aromaticum, 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
Baltic States BLT
Belarus BLR
Central European Russia RUC
Czechia-Slovakia CZE
Germany GER
Greece GRC
Hungary HUN
Italy ITA
North European Russia RUN
Northwest European Russia RUW
NW. Balkan Pen. YUG
Poland POL
Romania ROM
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.

Flowering 69 in flower of 150 examined

Peak flowering in Jul. Each bar is the share of Chaerophyllum aromaticum 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. 69 of 150 examined observations were in flower, every one of them research grade. The whisker on each bar is a 95% Wilson interval. 6 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.

Where it actually grows measured, from 2,040 observations

Condition 5th percentile Median 95th percentile
Coldest month, mean daily low -10.9 °C -9.0 °C -4.0 °C
Warmest month, mean daily high 21.0 °C 22.6 °C 24.3 °C
Annual rainfall 611 mm 697 mm 896 mm
Rainfall in the driest quarter 96 mm 113 mm 148 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 2,040 research-grade observations of Chaerophyllum aromaticum 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. Climate from CHELSA V2.1 (Karger et al. 2017); occurrences from 10.15468/dl.cgje2x.

Also published as 6 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.

  • Chaerophyllum euboeum Halácsy
  • Myrrhis aromatica Spreng.
  • Scandix aromatica (L.) Wahlenb.
  • Scandix tinctoria Scop.
  • Selinum aromaticum E.H.L.Krause
  • Sikira aromatica (L.) Raf.

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.