Prangos odontalgica(Pall.) Herrnst. & Heyn

WFO wfo-0000392510 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Prangos odontalgica, photographed by Konstantin Grebennikov
fig. a Konstantin Grebennikov, CC BY 4.0 / 2021-05-05 / obs. 132139940
Prangos odontalgica, photographed by Galyna Mykytynets
fig. b Galyna Mykytynets, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 116044020
Prangos odontalgica, photographed by Алина Урусова
fig. c Алина Урусова, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 58852978
Prangos odontalgica, photographed by Иван Пристрем
fig. d Иван Пристрем, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 178563456
Prangos odontalgica, photographed by Konstantin Grebennikov
fig. e Konstantin Grebennikov, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 99960750
Prangos odontalgica, photographed by Konstantin Grebennikov
fig. f Konstantin Grebennikov, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 100090286
Prangos odontalgica, photographed by Konstantin Grebennikov
fig. g Konstantin Grebennikov, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 100090281
Prangos odontalgica, photographed by Иван Пристрем
fig. h Иван Пристрем, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 178563465

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Native range 6 botanical countries

Regions where Prangos odontalgica is native: Altay, Kazakhstan, North Caucasus, East European Russia, South European Russia, Ukraine AltayKazakhstanNorth CaucasusEast European RussiaSouth European RussiaUkraine
Native distribution of Prangos odontalgica, 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
Altay ALT ASIA-TEMPERATE
Kazakhstan KAZ
North Caucasus NCS
East European Russia RUE EUROPE
South European Russia RUS
Ukraine UKR

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 431 observations

Condition 5th percentile Median 95th percentile
Coldest month, mean daily low -10.1 °C -6.4 °C -4.7 °C
Warmest month, mean daily high 29.3 °C 30.5 °C 32.0 °C
Annual rainfall 270 mm 317 mm 451 mm
Rainfall in the driest quarter 48 mm 63 mm 90 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 431 research-grade observations of Prangos odontalgica 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 5 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 callosperma Pall.
  • Cachrys odontalgica Pall.
  • Cachrys pubescens (Pall. ex Spreng.) Schischk.
  • Ferula pubescens Pall. ex Schult.
  • Prangos pubescens (Pall. ex Schult.) Pimenov & Kljuykov

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.