Plate 1 figs. a–e · 1 observation
This species has been photographed under an open licence only 1 time, 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 10 botanical countries
| Region | TDWG code | Continent |
|---|---|---|
| Cape Provinces | CPP | AFRICA |
| Eswatini | SWZ | |
| Free State | OFS | |
| KwaZulu-Natal | NAT | |
| Lesotho | LES | |
| Malawi | MLW | |
| Mozambique | MOZ | |
| Northern Provinces | TVL | |
| Tanzania | TAN | |
| Zimbabwe | ZIM |
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 94 observations
| Condition | 5th percentile | Median | 95th percentile |
|---|---|---|---|
| Coldest month, mean daily low | -4.7 °C | 3.4 °C | 12.4 °C |
| Warmest month, mean daily high | 18.1 °C | 23.9 °C | 26.2 °C |
| Annual rainfall | 803 mm | 975 mm | 1,492 mm |
| Rainfall in the driest quarter | 38 mm | 62 mm | 130 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 94 research-grade observations of Pimpinella afra 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 Reading one as the other would place a plant several zones too warm, so we do not publish a hardiness zone, because we do not have one.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 17 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.
- Anisum afrum Eckl. & Zeyh.
- Anisum caffrum Eckl. & Zeyh.
- Anisum stadense Eckl. & Zeyh.
- Cnidium kraussianum Sond.
- Foeniculum kraussianum Meisn.
- Pimpinella caffra (Eckl. & Zeyh.) D.Dietr.
- Pimpinella caffra subsp. conopodioides C.C.Towns.
- Pimpinella cordata E.Mey.
- Pimpinella hydrophila H.Wolff
- Pimpinella kraussiana Meisn. ex Krauss
- Pimpinella krookii H.Wolff
- Pimpinella nyasica C.Norman
- Pimpinella reenensis Reching.
- Pimpinella schlechteri H.Wolff
- Pimpinella stadensis (Eckl. & Zeyh.) D.Dietr.
- Pimpinella transvaalensis H.Wolff
- Selinum kraussianum (Meisn.) Benth. & Hook.f. ex B.D.Jacks.
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.