- Family:
- Apiaceae Lindl.
- Genus:
- Ammi L.
Ammi majus L.

[CPLC]
Bernal, R., Gradstein, S.R. & Celis, M. (eds.). 2015. Catálogo de plantas y líquenes de Colombia. Instituto de Ciencias Naturales, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá. http://catalogoplantasdecolombia.unal.edu.co
- Distribution
- Adventicia en Colombia; Alt. 2030 - 2400 m.; Andes.
- Morphology General Habit
- Hierba
- Conservation
- No Evaluada
[UPB]
The Useful Plants of Boyacá project
- Conservation
- Not Evaluated.
- Morphology General Habit
- Herb.
- Distribution
- Introduced in Colombia.
- Ecology
- Alt. 2030 - 2400 m.
[UPFC]
- Distribution
- Biogeografic region: Andean. Elevation range: 2030–2400 m a.s.l. Naturalised in Colombia. Colombian departments: Boyacá, Cundinamarca.
- Habit
- Herb.
- Ecology
- Habitat according IUCN Habitats Classification: shrubland, artificial - terrestrial.
[FIQ]
Ghazanfar, S. A. & Edmondson, J. R (Eds). (2014) Flora of Iraq, Volume 5 Part 2: Lythraceae to Campanulaceae.
- Morphology General Habit
- Erect, glabrous annual (8–)25–100 cm, stems less stout than those of the preceding species, terete, striate, branched from base
- Morphology Branches
- Branches long, ascending
- Morphology Leaves
- Lowest leaves pinnate or pinnate-ternate with few segments, often persisting until flowering time, segments very variable in size, regularly and sharply serrate, oblanceolate to broadly obovate Upper leaves reducing in size, pinnate-ternate to variously pinnatisect, but the narrower segments remaining broadest at or above the middle, and almost always serrate-dentate
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Inflorescences Bracts
- Involucral bracts large, pinnatifid, shorter than the rays
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Inflorescences
- Partial umbels ± 30-flowered; pedicels 2–7(–9) mm, the longer subequalled by the 8–12 linear-subulate, entire bracteoles Umbels somewhat unequally (10–)15–50(–75)-rayed, the rays 2–6 cm, shorter in the centre of umbel, not set on a disk and not closing up together in fruit
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Inflorescences Peduncles
- Peduncles ± 4–16 cm
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Fruits
- Fruit glabrous, ovoid-oblong, 2 mm long, ribs narrow and not prominent
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Gynoecium Style
- Styles reflexed, slightly shorter than those of A. visnaga, but still exceeding the conical stylopodia.
- Ecology
- Gravelly hillsides, riverine thickets, along ditches in fields, damp places, weed in fields and gardens, on sandy gravel soils; alt. 50–400 m
- Phenology
- Flowering and fruiting: Apr.–Jun.
- Distribution
- Africa (Morocco to Libya), Macaronesia (Madeira, Tenerife), Ethiopia; cultivated and adventive in China. Common in the steppe region of Iraq, and also on irrigated alluvial plain in the desert region. S & Mediterranean Europe (France, Portugal & Spain to Balkans & Greece), Aegean Isles, Cyprus, Syria, Lebanon, Palestine, Egypt, Arabia, Kuwait, Turkey, Iran, Pakistan, N
- Vernacular
- Common Bishop’s weed; also Great Ammi (Am.), GARAIR (for GHURAIR), (Ir.-Baghdad district, Guest 2508, Guest & Darwish al-Haidari 2230); ZAND AL-ARŪS (Ir.-Khalis, Lazar 1164); KHAIZARĀN
- Note
- Baghdad, H. Ahmad 9820). Ibn al-Baitar (c. 1240) mentioned AKHALLA as the name of an umbelliferous plant, the seeds of which were used to make a soothing mouthwash and which LeClerck (1877–83) refers to this species, though the passage seems more likely to refer to A. visnaga, q.v. As regards the present species, a note on a specimen of it communicated to Herb. Kew by E Gouldring in 1929 noted that the plant had been reported as obnoxious and was said to cause an affection to the eyes of animals browsing on it, which led to an opacity of the cornea in their eyes. Guest (1938) noted that the plant was said to be poisonous and to cause blindness in horses which grazed it.
[FTEA]
Umbelliferae, C.C. Townsend. Flora of Tropical East Africa. 1989
- Morphology General Habit
- Slender but wiry glabrous annual herb, 0.25–1.2(–1.8) m., with a slender taproot.
- Morphology Stem
- Stem terete or feebly angled, striate, rather sparingly branched.
- Morphology Leaves
- Lower leaves (1–)2-pinnate, with up to 3 pairs of stalked pinnae, the pinnae opposite but pinnules frequently alternate; segments oblanceolate to elliptic or broadly obovate, ± 1–7 × 0.4–8 cm., sharply toothed, the teeth with a long, white, fine, whitish mucro, subaristate; petioles ± 4.5–16 cm.; sheaths triangular to oblong, membranous-margined, finely striate, 0.8–1.5 cm.; upper leaves gradually more narrowly divided, more shortly petiolate, the uppermost sessile on the sheaths with linear and remotely toothed segments; more rarely forms occur with all the leaves regularly bipinnate with narrow segments.
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Inflorescences
- Umbels large and showy, on divergent peduncles ± 6–18 cm. long; rays (7–)15–50 or more, slender, ± 2.5–6.5 cm. long; involucre of several bracts, these usually pinnately divided into filiform pale-aristate segments, sometimes simple in dwarfed forms growing in unfavourable conditions; partial umbels ± 18–30-flowered, the pedicels very unequal, ± 1–9 mm.; involucel of ± 8–10 narrow, membranous-margined, subulate bracteoles with a pale terminal arista, the longest usually subequalling the pedicels at anthesis.
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Corolla
- Petals ± 1 mm., white.
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Fruits
- Fruiting calyx obsolete; stylopodia bluntly conical, exceeded by the slender, pale, deflexed styles. Fruit narrowly oblong-elliptic, ± 2–2.5 × 0.75–1 mm., glabrous, when ripe blackish with pale, narrow, prominent ribs.
- Figures
- Fig. 16.
- Habitat
- Self-sown exotic; 1650 m.
- Distribution
- K4 a native of S. Europe, the Mediterranean region, SW. Asia and ? Ethiopia, not infrequent as a casual in northern Europe and elsewhere
Native to:
Albania, Algeria, Azores, Baleares, Canary Is., Corse, Cyprus, East Aegean Is., Egypt, France, Greece, Gulf States, Iran, Iraq, Italy, Kriti, Kuwait, Lebanon-Syria, Libya, Madeira, Morocco, Oman, Palestine, Portugal, Sardegna, Saudi Arabia, Selvagens, Sicilia, Sinai, Spain, Tunisia, Turkey, Turkey-in-Europe, Yemen, Yugoslavia
Introduced into:
Alabama, Argentina Northeast, Argentina Northwest, Argentina South, Arizona, Bahamas, Belgium, Bermuda, Brazil South, California, Cape Provinces, Chile South, China Southeast, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Finland, Florida, Free State, Georgia, Great Britain, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Ireland, Japan, Kenya, KwaZulu-Natal, Louisiana, Mexico Central, Mexico Southwest, Mississippi, Missouri, New Caledonia, New Zealand North, New Zealand South, Northern Provinces, Norway, Oregon, Pakistan, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, South Dakota, Sweden, Tadzhikistan, Texas, Tubuai Is., Uruguay
Ammi majus L. appears in other Kew resources:
Date | Reference | Identified As | Barcode | Type Status | Has image? |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Jan 1, 1970 | s.coll. [74], Iran | K000687062 | Yes | ||
Schimper [376], Ethiopia | K000310822 | Yes | |||
Schimper [376], Ethiopia | K000310823 | Yes | |||
Murray, R.P. [s.n.], Canary Is. | K001091060 | No | |||
Bourgeau, E. [204], Canary Is. | K001091063 | No | |||
Webb, P.B. [s.n.], Canary Is. | K001091062 | No | |||
Asplund, E. [862], Canary Is. | K001091059 | No | |||
Sprague, T.A. [143], Canary Is. | K001091061 | No |
First published in Sp. Pl.: 243 (1753)
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