Chaerophyllum aureum

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Chaerophyllum aureum, photographed by Oleg Kosterin — fig. b Oleg Kosterin, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 172397706

Chaerophyllum aureum, photographed by nicoweg — fig. d nicoweg, CC0 1.0 / obs. 134874657

Chaerophyllum aureum, photographed by Михаил Орлов — fig. e Михаил Орлов, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 92410920

Chaerophyllum aureum, photographed by Gabriel Mayrhofer — fig. f Gabriel Mayrhofer, CC0 1.0 / obs. 85202756

Chaerophyllum aureum, photographed by Jason Grant — fig. g Jason Grant, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 80953653

Chaerophyllum aureum, photographed by Christian Berg — fig. h Christian Berg, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 79634250

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Native range 20 botanical countries

Native distribution of Chaerophyllum aureum, 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.

Region	TDWG code	Continent
Albania	ALB	EUROPE
Austria	AUT
Bulgaria	BUL
Czechia-Slovakia	CZE
France	FRA
Germany	GER
Greece	GRC
Hungary	HUN
Italy	ITA
Krym	KRY
NW. Balkan Pen.	YUG
Poland	POL
Romania	ROM
Spain	SPA
Switzerland	SWI
Türkiye-in-Europe	TUE
Iran	IRN	ASIA-TEMPERATE
North Caucasus	NCS
Transcaucasus	TCS
Türkiye	TUR

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 40 in flower of 49 examined

73%

100%

56%

Proportion of examined Chaerophyllum aureum in flower, by month
Month	In flower	Examined	Share	95% interval
Jan	0	0	too few examined
Feb	0	0	too few examined
Mar	0	0	too few examined
Apr	0	0	too few examined
May	11	15	73%	48% to 89%
Jun	23	23	100%	86% to 100%
Jul	5	9	56%	27% to 81%
Aug	0	1	too few examined
Sep	0	0	too few examined
Oct	1	1	too few examined
Nov	0	0	too few examined
Dec	0	0	too few examined

Peak flowering in Jun. Each bar is the share of Chaerophyllum aureum 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. 40 of 49 examined observations were in flower, every one of them research grade. The whisker on each bar is a 95% Wilson interval. 9 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 832 observations

Condition	5th percentile	Median	95th percentile
Coldest month, mean daily low	-12.9 °C	-7.9 °C	-2.1 °C
Warmest month, mean daily high	17.0 °C	21.9 °C	24.1 °C
Annual rainfall	650 mm	958 mm	2,076 mm
Rainfall in the driest quarter	67 mm	162 mm	392 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 832 research-grade observations of Chaerophyllum aureum 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 17 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.

Bellia aurata Bubani
Chaerophyllum angelicifolium var. temuloides (Boiss.) Tamamsch.
Chaerophyllum aureum f. hybridum (Ten.) Bolzon
Chaerophyllum aureum subsp. maculatum (Willd.) Nyman
Chaerophyllum aureum var. involucratum Lecoq & Lamotte
Chaerophyllum hybridum Ten.
Chaerophyllum maculatum Willd. ex DC.
Chaerophyllum maculatum Willd.
Chaerophyllum monogonum Kit. ex Link
Chaerophyllum temuloides Boiss.
Chaerophyllum temuloides var. trapezutinum Boiss.
Chaerophyllum trapezuntinum Boiss.
Croaspila aurea (L.) Raf.
Myrrhis aurea All.
Myrrhis maculata Sweet
Scandix aurea (L.) Roth
Selinum aureum E.H.L.Krause

Sourcesevery claim on this page

World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
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.