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Nigella
Nigella is a genus of about 25 species of annual or biennial plants in the family Ranunculaceae, native to Macaronesia, southern and central Europe, North Africa, the Middle East, and Central Asia. Common names applied to members of this genus are nigella, devil-in-a-bush or love-in-a-mist.
16 branches of this group, most-observed first
Field Love-in-a-mist
speciesNigella arvensis
Nigella gallica
speciesNigella gallica
Nigella
speciesNigella sativa
Fennelflower
speciesNigella papillosa
Fumitory-leaved Love-in-a-Mist
speciesNigella fumariifolia
Nigella segetalis
speciesNigella segetalis
Nigella doerfleri
speciesNigella doerfleri
Nigella degenii
speciesNigella degenii
Pale Fennelflower
speciesNigella hispanica
Nigella carpatha
speciesNigella carpatha
Nigella stellaris
speciesNigella stellaris
Nigella icarica
speciesNigella icarica
Nigella turcica
speciesNigella turcica
Nigella deserti
speciesNigella deserti
Nigella stricta
speciesNigella stricta
Nigella koyuncui
speciesNigella koyuncui
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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In the old herbals & bestiaries
Herbarius
1485 · p.206
On Medical Materials in Six Books
Dioscorides · 1550 · p.435
Herbarius latinus (with Dutch synonyms)
1486 · p.203
Maria Sibylla Merian — Der rupsen begin, voedzel en wonderbaare verandering (1712)
Maria Sibylla Merian · 1717 · p.375
Latin Herbal
1484 · p.205
Latin Herbal with German Synonyms
1486 · p.206
Commentaries on the Six Books of Pedanius Dioscorides on Medical Matter
Pietro Andrea Mattioli · 1565 · p.968
Hortus Eystettensis
Basilius Besler · 1640 · p.198
Latin Herbal with German Synonyms
1484 · p.233
Herbarius latinus (with French synonyms)
1486 · p.207
Ortus sanitatis
1491 · p.209
Ortus sanitatis
1491 · p.284
In the stacks
Searching the stacks…
Every page naming Nigella in the Biodiversity Heritage Library →
This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 1673502.