Prangos ferulaceaLindl.

WFO wfo-0000392443 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY / CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 6 observations

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 6 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.

Prangos ferulacea, photographed by Konstantin Grebennikov
fig. a Konstantin Grebennikov, CC BY 4.0 / 2021-05-24 / obs. 132930724
Prangos ferulacea, photographed by Emanuele Santarelli
fig. b Emanuele Santarelli, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 74968934
Prangos ferulacea, photographed by Todd Boland
fig. c Todd Boland, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 113036501
Prangos ferulacea, photographed by Konstantin Grebennikov
fig. d Konstantin Grebennikov, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 132930842
Prangos ferulacea, photographed by Emanuele Santarelli
fig. e Emanuele Santarelli, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 74968762
Prangos ferulacea, photographed by Andre Hosper
fig. f Andre Hosper, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 10091435
Prangos ferulacea, photographed by Andre Hosper
fig. g Andre Hosper, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 9975588
Prangos ferulacea, photographed by Todd Boland
fig. h Todd Boland, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 113038637

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Native range 14 botanical countries

Regions where Prangos ferulacea is native: Iran, Iraq, Lebanon-Syria, North Caucasus, Palestine, Transcaucasus, Türkiye, Albania, Bulgaria, Greece, Italy, NW. Balkan Pen., Romania, Sicilia IranIraqLebanon-SyriaNorth CaucasusPalestineTranscaucasusTürkiyeAlbaniaBulgariaGreeceItalyNW. Balkan Pen.RomaniaSicilia
Native distribution of Prangos ferulacea, 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
Iran IRN ASIA-TEMPERATE
Iraq IRQ
Lebanon-Syria LBS
North Caucasus NCS
Palestine PAL
Transcaucasus TCS
Türkiye TUR
Albania ALB EUROPE
Bulgaria BUL
Greece GRC
Italy ITA
NW. Balkan Pen. YUG
Romania ROM
Sicilia SIC

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 160 observations

Condition 5th percentile Median 95th percentile
Coldest month, mean daily low -14.5 °C -8.0 °C 6.5 °C
Warmest month, mean daily high 19.1 °C 25.3 °C 34.3 °C
Annual rainfall 419 mm 663 mm 1,324 mm
Rainfall in the driest quarter 2 mm 85 mm 218 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 160 research-grade observations of Prangos ferulacea 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 23 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.

  • Cachrys alata Hoffm.
  • Cachrys alata Hoffm.
  • Cachrys cylindracea Guss. ex DC.
  • Cachrys ferulacea Calest.
  • Cachrys goniocarpa Boiss.
  • Cachrys goniocarpa var. asperifolia Mouterde
  • Cachrys nematoloba Rech.f. & Riedl
  • Cachrys prangoides Boiss.
  • Laserpitium ferulaceum L.
  • Prangos alata (M.Bieb.) Grossh.
  • Prangos asperula var. judaica Rech.f.
  • Prangos asperula var. leiopetala Post
  • Prangos asperula var. stenoptera Boiss.
  • Prangos biebersteinii Karjagin
  • Prangos cylindracea DC.
  • Prangos ferulacea var. cylindracea (DC.) Fiori & Paol.
  • Prangos ferulacea var. scabridula Boiss.
  • Prangos foeniculacea C.A.Mey.
  • Prangos goniocarpa (Boiss.) Zohary.
  • Prangos goniocarpa var. stenoptera (Boiss.) Zohary.
  • Prangos macrocarpa Boiss.
  • Prangos stenoptera Boiss. & Buhse
  • Smyrnium laserpitioides Crantz

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.