Chaerophyllum nodosum(L.) Crantz

WFO wfo-0000599054 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Chaerophyllum nodosum, photographed by Anna Petrosyan
fig. a Anna Petrosyan, CC BY 4.0 / 2021-10-28 / obs. 166112072
Chaerophyllum nodosum, photographed by Anna Petrosyan
fig. b Anna Petrosyan, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 171947719
Chaerophyllum nodosum, photographed by Anna Petrosyan
fig. c Anna Petrosyan, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 167969850
Chaerophyllum nodosum, photographed by Anna Petrosyan
fig. d Anna Petrosyan, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 162845689
Chaerophyllum nodosum, photographed by Анна Кириченко
fig. e Анна Кириченко, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 125200664
Chaerophyllum nodosum, photographed by Михаил Орлов
fig. f Михаил Орлов, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 99356639
Chaerophyllum nodosum, photographed by Михаил Орлов
fig. g Михаил Орлов, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 59381020
Chaerophyllum nodosum, photographed by Михаил Орлов
fig. h Михаил Орлов, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 111442202

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Native range 31 botanical countries

Regions where Chaerophyllum nodosum is native: Algeria, Morocco, East Aegean Is., Iran, Iraq, Kazakhstan, Kirgizstan, Lebanon-Syria, North Caucasus, Palestine, Tadzhikistan, Transcaucasus, Türkiye, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Albania, Bulgaria, Corse, France, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Krym, NW. Balkan Pen., Portugal, Romania, Sardegna, Sicilia, Spain, Türkiye-in-Europe, Ukraine AlgeriaMoroccoEast Aegean Is.IranIraqKazakhstanKirgizstanLebanon-SyriaNorth CaucasusPalestineTadzhikistanTranscaucasusTürkiyeTurkmenistanUzbekistanAlbaniaBulgariaCorseFranceGreeceHungaryItalyKrymNW. Balkan Pen.PortugalRomaniaSiciliaSpainTürkiye-in-EuropeUkraine Sardegna
Native distribution of Chaerophyllum nodosum, 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
Albania ALB EUROPE
Bulgaria BUL
Corse COR
France FRA
Greece GRC
Hungary HUN
Italy ITA
Krym KRY
NW. Balkan Pen. YUG
Portugal POR
Romania ROM
Sardegna SAR
Sicilia SIC
Spain SPA
Türkiye-in-Europe TUE
Ukraine UKR
East Aegean Is. EAI ASIA-TEMPERATE
Iran IRN
Iraq IRQ
Kazakhstan KAZ
Kirgizstan KGZ
Lebanon-Syria LBS
North Caucasus NCS
Palestine PAL
Tadzhikistan TZK
Transcaucasus TCS
Türkiye TUR
Turkmenistan TKM
Uzbekistan UZB
Algeria ALG AFRICA
Morocco MOR

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 363 observations

Condition 5th percentile Median 95th percentile
Coldest month, mean daily low -4.6 °C -1.2 °C 1.8 °C
Warmest month, mean daily high 23.7 °C 26.8 °C 30.1 °C
Annual rainfall 473 mm 761 mm 1,049 mm
Rainfall in the driest quarter 5 mm 145 mm 197 mm

It is found where winters bring light 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 363 research-grade observations of Chaerophyllum nodosum 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 13 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.

  • Acularia nodosa (L.) Raf.
  • Anthriscus nodosus (L.) Pers.
  • Anthriscus scandens Steud.
  • Anthriscus scandix M.Bieb.
  • Biasolettia nodosa (L.) Bertol.
  • Caucalis scandix-nodosa Vest
  • Fiebera nodosa (L.) Opiz
  • Myrrhis nodosa (L.) Lam.
  • Myrrhoides nodosa (L.) Cannon
  • Physocaulis nodosus (L.) W.D.J.Koch
  • Scandix nodosa L.
  • Torilis macrocarpa Gaertn.
  • Torilis tumida Moench

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.