Pimpinella tragiumVill.

WFO wfo-0000391295 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Pimpinella tragium, photographed by Aleksei Baushev
fig. a Aleksei Baushev, CC BY 4.0 / 2021-10-23 / obs. 165130778
Pimpinella tragium, photographed by Dmitriy Bochkov
fig. b Dmitriy Bochkov, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 43243897
Pimpinella tragium, photographed by Михаил Орлов
fig. c Михаил Орлов, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 51310542
Pimpinella tragium, photographed by Татьяна Максимова
fig. d Татьяна Максимова, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 159208440
Pimpinella tragium, photographed by Елена Патерикина
fig. e Елена Патерикина, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 154091139
Pimpinella tragium, photographed by Елена Патерикина
fig. f Елена Патерикина, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 152657593
Pimpinella tragium, photographed by Елена Патерикина
fig. g Елена Патерикина, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 151364616
Pimpinella tragium, photographed by Елена Патерикина
fig. h Елена Патерикина, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 151259595

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The specimen a real sheet, in a real collection

Herbarium
The New York Botanical Garden
Accession
05107903
Filed as
Pimpinella tragium Vill.
Det. by
not recorded on this sheet
Collected
not recorded
Origin
not recorded
The sheet
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Native range 27 botanical countries

Regions where Pimpinella tragium is native: Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia, Iran, Iraq, Kazakhstan, Lebanon-Syria, North Caucasus, Transcaucasus, Türkiye, Turkmenistan, Albania, Baleares, Bulgaria, Central European Russia, East European Russia, France, Greece, Italy, Kriti, Krym, NW. Balkan Pen., Romania, Sicilia, South European Russia, Spain, Ukraine AlgeriaMoroccoTunisiaIranIraqKazakhstanLebanon-SyriaNorth CaucasusTranscaucasusTürkiyeTurkmenistanAlbaniaBulgariaCentral European RussiaEast European RussiaFranceGreeceItalyKritiKrymNW. Balkan Pen.RomaniaSiciliaSouth European RussiaSpainUkraine Baleares
Native distribution of Pimpinella tragium, 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. Regions too small to draw at this scale are marked with a dot.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Albania ALB EUROPE
Baleares BAL
Bulgaria BUL
Central European Russia RUC
East European Russia RUE
France FRA
Greece GRC
Italy ITA
Kriti KRI
Krym KRY
NW. Balkan Pen. YUG
Romania ROM
Sicilia SIC
South European Russia RUS
Spain SPA
Ukraine UKR
Iran IRN ASIA-TEMPERATE
Iraq IRQ
Kazakhstan KAZ
Lebanon-Syria LBS
North Caucasus NCS
Transcaucasus TCS
Türkiye TUR
Turkmenistan TKM
Algeria ALG AFRICA
Morocco MOR
Tunisia TUN

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 627 observations

Condition 5th percentile Median 95th percentile
Coldest month, mean daily low -12.3 °C -8.5 °C 1.0 °C
Warmest month, mean daily high 20.0 °C 26.0 °C 28.4 °C
Annual rainfall 431 mm 592 mm 1,108 mm
Rainfall in the driest quarter 82 mm 111 mm 204 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 627 research-grade observations of Pimpinella tragium 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 46 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.

  • Apium tragium (Vill.) Caruel
  • Johrenia thessala Bornm.
  • Pimpinella apula Bernh.
  • Pimpinella canescens Loisel.
  • Pimpinella confusa Woronow
  • Pimpinella daghestanica Schischk.
  • Pimpinella depauperata Post
  • Pimpinella depressa (Sieber ex Spreng.) DC.
  • Pimpinella djurdjurae Chabert
  • Pimpinella glauca (C.Presl) C.Presl
  • Pimpinella grossheimii Schischk.
  • Pimpinella idae Takht.
  • Pimpinella leucocarpa St.-Lag.
  • Pimpinella lithophila Schischk.
  • Pimpinella longiradiata Boiss. & Heldr.
  • Pimpinella manzanedoi Sennen & Elias
  • Pimpinella olenea Boiss. & Heldr. ex Boiss.
  • Pimpinella parnassica Boiss. & Heldr. ex Boiss.
  • Pimpinella petraea Willd. ex Spreng.
  • Pimpinella polyclada Boiss. & Heldr.
  • Pimpinella polyclada var. hispida Čelak.
  • Pimpinella pseudotragium DC.
  • Pimpinella sartorii Heldr.
  • Pimpinella titanophila Woronow

and 22 more.

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.