Plate 1 figs. a–h · 4 observations
This species has been photographed under an open licence only 4 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.
Every figure is a research-grade observation under CC0, CC BY or CC BY-SA, rehosted with the photographer’s name, the licence and the observation it came from. Photographs under a NonCommercial licence are excluded from this site and are never stored, which costs us a great many pictures and is not negotiable.
Native range 3 botanical countries
| Region | TDWG code | Continent |
|---|---|---|
| Iran | IRN | ASIA-TEMPERATE |
| Iraq | IRQ | |
| 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.
Where it actually grows measured, from 61 observations
| Condition | 5th percentile | Median | 95th percentile |
|---|---|---|---|
| Coldest month, mean daily low | -7.6 °C | 3.8 °C | 13.7 °C |
| Warmest month, mean daily high | 21.6 °C | 30.4 °C | 40.6 °C |
| Annual rainfall | 263 mm | 677 mm | 1,855 mm |
| Rainfall in the driest quarter | 2 mm | 26 mm | 248 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 61 research-grade observations of Cicer arietinum 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 Reading one as the other would place a plant several zones too warm, so we do not publish a hardiness zone, because we do not have one.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 26 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.
- Cicer album hort.
- Cicer arientinium L.
- Cicer arientinum L.
- Cicer arietinum subsp. eurasiaticum Popova
- Cicer arietinum var. albangulatum K.G.Prozorova
- Cicer arietinum var. albotestaceum K.G.Prozorova
- Cicer arietinum var. album Gaudin
- Cicer arietinum var. azureocoloratum K.G.Prozorova
- Cicer arietinum var. cruentum Alef.
- Cicer arietinum var. fuscum Alef.
- Cicer arietinum var. gilvum K.G.Prozorova
- Cicer arietinum var. globosum Alef.
- Cicer arietinum var. macrospermum Jaub. & Spach
- Cicer arietinum var. nigrum Alef.
- Cicer arietinum var. rhytidospermum Jaub. & Spach
- Cicer arietinum var. vulgare Jaub. & Spach
- Cicer edessanum Bornm.
- Cicer grossum Salisb.
- Cicer nigrum hort. ex Steud.
- Cicer physodes Rchb.
- Cicer reticulatum Ladiz.
- Cicer rotundum Jord. ex Alef.
- Cicer sativum Schkuhr
- Nochotta oleracea S.G.Gmel.
and 2 more.
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.
- Wikidata. common name (P1843), joined on the World Flora Online identifier (P7715). CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-13.
- 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.