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Nigella doerfleri is a small annual wildflower of the buttercup family, native to southern Greece, the Aegean Islands and Crete, where it grows in dry, sunny, low-elevation habitats. It is a wild species rarely grown in gardens, and its care is inferred from close relatives in the Nigella (love-in-a-mist) genus.
Nigella doerfleri is a species of flowering plant in the family Ranunculaceae. Native to southern Greece, the Aegean Islands, and Crete, it is a member of the Nigella arvensis species complex. An annual, it is typically found in the subtropical biome at elevations from 0 to 600 m (0 to 2,000 ft). It has been assessed as Least Concern.
Wild fennel-flower · Nigella ciliaris · Love in a mist · Pale Fennel Flower · Spanish fennel · Yellow Nigella · Fennelflower · Black cumin · Nigella segetalis · Devil-in-a-bush
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Nigella doerfleri by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
