Meum athamanticum

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Meum athamanticum, photographed by Thomas Koffel — fig. b Thomas Koffel, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 199762834

Meum athamanticum, photographed by Grzegorz Grzejszczak — fig. c Grzegorz Grzejszczak, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 188127039

Meum athamanticum, photographed by judybaxter — fig. d judybaxter, CC0 1.0 / obs. 154917867

Meum athamanticum, photographed by E. Borchert — fig. e E. Borchert, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 138380814

Meum athamanticum, photographed by Quentin Groom — fig. f Quentin Groom, CC0 1.0 / obs. 135960017

Meum athamanticum, photographed by Pieter Huybrechts — fig. g Pieter Huybrechts, CC0 1.0 / obs. 134315423

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Native range 15 botanical countries

Native distribution of Meum athamanticum, 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
Belgium	BGM
Bulgaria	BUL
Czechia-Slovakia	CZE
France	FRA
Germany	GER
Great Britain	GRB
Italy	ITA
NW. Balkan Pen.	YUG
Poland	POL
Romania	ROM
Spain	SPA
Switzerland	SWI
Morocco	MOR	AFRICA

Not drawn on the map: Great Britain. We hold no public-domain boundary for this region, so it is listed rather than guessed at.

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 115 in flower of 183 examined

69%

91%

40%

Proportion of examined Meum athamanticum 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	2	too few examined
May	24	35	69%	52% to 81%
Jun	69	76	91%	82% to 95%
Jul	19	48	40%	27% to 54%
Aug	1	13	8%	1% to 33%
Sep	2	5	40%	12% to 77%
Oct	0	3	too few examined
Nov	0	1	too few examined
Dec	0	0	too few examined

Peak flowering in Jun. Each bar is the share of Meum athamanticum 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. 115 of 183 examined observations were in flower, every one of them research grade. The whisker on each bar is a 95% Wilson interval. 7 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.

Also published as 19 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.

Aethusa meum L.
Aethusa tenuifolium Salisb.
Athamanta meum L.
Carum meum Stokes
Ligusticum capillaceum Lam.
Ligusticum meum (L.) Crantz
Meonitis chloranthes Raf.
Meum anethifolium G.Gaertn., B.Mey. & Scherb.
Meum athamanta Pers.
Meum athamanticum subsp. labranum (Gand.) Leute
Meum athamanticum subsp. nevadense (Boiss.) Malag.
Meum athamanticum var. nevadense (Boiss.) Molero Mesa & Pérez Raya
Meum capillaceum Dulac
Meum labranum Gand.
Meum meum (L.) H.Karst.
Meum nevadense Boiss.
Meum vulgare Hill
Selinum meum (L.) E.H.L.Krause
Seseli meum Scop.

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.