Ferulago galbanifera(Mill.) W.D.J.Koch

WFO wfo-0000686924 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.

Ferulago galbanifera, photographed by Valerii Darmostuk
fig. a Valerii Darmostuk, CC BY 4.0 / 2020-07-01 / obs. 82191858
Ferulago galbanifera, photographed by Denys Vynokurov
fig. b Denys Vynokurov, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 81726686
Ferulago galbanifera, photographed by Valerii Darmostuk
fig. c Valerii Darmostuk, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 82191805
Ferulago galbanifera, photographed by Denys Vynokurov
fig. d Denys Vynokurov, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 81726704
Ferulago galbanifera, photographed by Denys Vynokurov
fig. e Denys Vynokurov, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 81726726
Ferulago galbanifera, photographed by Denys Vynokurov
fig. f Denys Vynokurov, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 81726746
Ferulago galbanifera, photographed by Denys Vynokurov
fig. g Denys Vynokurov, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 81726774
Ferulago galbanifera, photographed by Denys Vynokurov
fig. h Denys Vynokurov, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 81726787

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.

Where it actually grows measured, from 318 observations

Condition 5th percentile Median 95th percentile
Coldest month, mean daily low -6.3 °C -2.6 °C 1.5 °C
Warmest month, mean daily high 22.1 °C 25.2 °C 27.9 °C
Annual rainfall 473 mm 918 mm 1,631 mm
Rainfall in the driest quarter 84 mm 169 mm 307 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 318 research-grade observations of Ferulago galbanifera 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 11 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.

  • Ferula campestris Besser
  • Ferula daghestanica (Schischk.) M.Hiroe
  • Ferula galbanifera Mill.
  • Ferula meoides L.
  • Ferulago campestris (Besser) Grecescu
  • Ferulago campestris (Besser) Grecescu
  • Ferulago daghestanica Schischk.
  • Ferulago dodonaei Kostel.
  • Ferulago meoides (L.) Boiss.
  • Lophosciadium meifolium DC.
  • Lophosciadium meifolium var. microcarpum Velen.

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.

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. It has no native range either: Kew's checklist does not cover this taxon.