Peucedanum alsaticumL.

WFO wfo-0000393808 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Peucedanum alsaticum, photographed by Силаева Татьяна Борисовна
fig. a Силаева Татьяна Борисовна, CC0 1.0 / 2022-05-31 / obs. 202665970
Peucedanum alsaticum, photographed by Yurii Basov
fig. b Yurii Basov, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 201856282
Peucedanum alsaticum, photographed by Yurii Basov
fig. c Yurii Basov, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 201472195
Peucedanum alsaticum, photographed by Yurii Basov
fig. d Yurii Basov, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 201208509
Peucedanum alsaticum, photographed by Yurii Basov
fig. e Yurii Basov, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 200480822
Peucedanum alsaticum, photographed by Yurii Basov
fig. f Yurii Basov, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 198830436
Peucedanum alsaticum, photographed by Yurii Basov
fig. g Yurii Basov, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 198362817
Peucedanum alsaticum, photographed by Yurii Basov
fig. h Yurii Basov, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 197278927

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Native range 19 botanical countries

Regions where Peucedanum alsaticum is native: Kazakhstan, North Caucasus, Transcaucasus, West Siberia, Albania, Austria, Bulgaria, Central European Russia, Czechia-Slovakia, East European Russia, France, Germany, Hungary, Krym, NW. Balkan Pen., Poland, Romania, South European Russia, Ukraine KazakhstanNorth CaucasusTranscaucasusWest SiberiaAlbaniaAustriaBulgariaCentral European RussiaCzechia-SlovakiaEast European RussiaFranceGermanyHungaryKrymNW. Balkan Pen.PolandRomaniaSouth European RussiaUkraine
Native distribution of Peucedanum alsaticum, 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.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Albania ALB EUROPE
Austria AUT
Bulgaria BUL
Central European Russia RUC
Czechia-Slovakia CZE
East European Russia RUE
France FRA
Germany GER
Hungary HUN
Krym KRY
NW. Balkan Pen. YUG
Poland POL
Romania ROM
South European Russia RUS
Ukraine UKR
Kazakhstan KAZ ASIA-TEMPERATE
North Caucasus NCS
Transcaucasus TCS
West Siberia WSB

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 1,904 observations

Condition 5th percentile Median 95th percentile
Coldest month, mean daily low -17.6 °C -10.0 °C -1.7 °C
Warmest month, mean daily high 23.4 °C 24.7 °C 26.6 °C
Annual rainfall 384 mm 564 mm 829 mm
Rainfall in the driest quarter 54 mm 100 mm 157 mm

It is found where winters are severely cold. This is not care advice and it is not a forecast. It is a measurement: we sampled the climate at every one of the 1,904 research-grade observations of Peucedanum alsaticum 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 21 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.

  • Cervaria alsatica Gaudin
  • Cervaria alsatica var. luteola Gaudin
  • Cnidium alsaticum Spreng.
  • Cynorhiza sulcata (Bertol.) Eckl. & Zeyh.
  • Johrenia pichleri Boiss.
  • Ligusticum alsaticum Link
  • Mylinum commutatum Gaudin
  • Peucedanum album Hort.Par. ex Poir.
  • Peucedanum alsaticum f. nikolovii Kuzmanov & N.Andreev
  • Peucedanum flexuosum Moench
  • Peucedanum lubimenkoanum Kotov
  • Peucedanum nymanii M.Hiroe
  • Peucedanum pyrenaicum Costa ex Steud.
  • Peucedanum sulcatum (Bertol.) Nyman
  • Pteroselinum alsaticum Rchb.
  • Selinum alsaticum Crantz
  • Selinum sulcatum Bertol.
  • Taeniopetalum peucedanoides Bunge
  • Xanthoselinum alsaticum (L.) Schur
  • Xanthoselinum alsaticum var. albiflorum Gareiso
  • Xanthoselinum alsaticum var. discolor Reduron

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.