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Ferula assa-foetida; photograph (c) kirinzi, some rights reserved (CC BY) CC BY(c) kirinzi, some rights reserved (CC BY) · observed growing wild · 2025-04-24

Ferula assa-foetida L.

Asafetida; Asafoetida; Assa-foetida; Devil's-dung

Apiaceae · Iran

No habitat climate
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Summary

Ferula assa-foetida is a species of Ferula endemic to Southern Iran. It is a source of asafoetida, but not the main source, although many sources claim so. The production of asafoetida from this species is confined to Southern Iran, especially the area near Lar.

Quoted from Wikipedia, "Ferula assa-foetida", CC BY-SA 4.0.

Cultivation

Nothing derived: no habitat climate for this species.

Climate across the habitat

No habitat climate can be derived: Only 1 distinct land cell of the climate grid holds an in-range record placed to within 10 km; three are needed for an envelope. 1 of the 2 in-range records is placed to worse than 10 km, or to no stated accuracy and fewer than three decimals or by something other than a person's observation, and cannot place a climate cell, though it counts for the map and its marker.

Natural habitat

Native range as published by WCVP.
Openly licensed records inside the range, framed on where they fall.
NativeIran · introduced: Libya, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Bangladesh, Laos · regions are the level-3 units of the World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions, as Kew's World Checklist records ranges, some under historical names such as Yugoslavia or Czechoslovakia (how).
Kew's description“perennial” · “subtropical” · quoted from WCVP, RBG Kew (CC BY 4.0); not derived here
Evidence usedThe map marker rests on all 2 georeferenced records inside the native range; the map shows only the 1 openly licensed one, which alone would put the marker in the same place. 46 records outside the WCVP native range not used. Under a dozen records behind the map. No climate across the range is derived for this species. 1 in-range record is placed to worse than 10 km, or with no stated accuracy (admitted only as a person's observation to three decimals), and stays on the map but off the climate.

Photographs

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Photographs: (c) kirinzi, some rights reserved (CC BY) (6).

Other Ferula 11 in the reference

Ferula ammoniacum Apiaceae Ferula communis Ferula communis Giant fennel Photo: CC BY, Barry StewartFerula glauca Ferula glauca Bluish Giant Fennel Photo: CC BY, Eleftherios KatsillisFerula gummosa Ferula gummosa Galbanum Photo: Public domain, author not statedFerula kelleri Ferula kelleri Apiaceae Photo: CC BY, Islam GalymzhanovFerula kuhistanica Ferula kuhistanica Kamol Photo: CC BY, Dr. Alexey YakovlevFerula lancerotensis Ferula lancerotensis Tajasnoyo Photo: CC BY, Christoph MoningFerula ovina Ferula ovina Apiaceae Photo: CC BY, Alexander Dubynin Ferula sadleriana Apiaceae Ferula songarica Ferula songarica Apiaceae Photo: CC BY, ivansemenkovFerula tingitana Ferula tingitana Tangier Fennel Photo: CC BY, Adi Peter

Names & registers

Also known as Ferula foetida; Ferula hooshee; Narthex asafoetida; Narthex polakii; Narthex silphium and 3 more. (GBIF Backbone)

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The record

Family
Apiaceae
Described by
L.
Native to
Iran
Wild records
2 in range · 1 open

Every figure here is derived from public data by a stated rule and names its source; nothing about this species is written for its page by a person or by AI, apart from the marked, credited quotations. How →

Where this page came from built 2026-10-22
GBIF species record gbif.species answeredasked 2026-10-22
GBIF synonyms gbif.synonyms answeredasked 2026-10-22
GBIF common names gbif.vernacular answeredasked 2026-10-22names fetched 2026-10-22
WCVP native range wcvp.distribution answeredas of 2026-06-04
GBIF occurrence records gbif.occurrences answeredas of 2026-10-21GBIF occurrence download https://doi.org/10.15468/dl.hbdw64, of 2026-10-21; 1 record within 1 km of a botanic garden, herbarium or zoo left out (1 at a botanic garden or arboretum; Wikidata's list)
Habitat climate climate nothing to reportasked 2026-10-22only 1 distinct land cell of the climate grid holds an in-range record placed to within 10 km; three are needed for an envelope
Wikidata wikidata answeredasked 2026-10-22found by its label; its IPNI identifier 842190-1 is Kew's for Ferula assa-foetida L.
Wikipedia wikipedia answeredasked 2026-10-22
iNaturalist photographs, wild inat.photos.wild answeredasked 2026-10-22from iNaturalist's open data of 2026-09-27: research-grade observations with an open-licence photograph, the 24 whose photographs iNaturalist received last (the open data holds no votes); filled 2026-10-22
iNaturalist photographs, cultivated inat.photos.cultivated not asked
GBIF media gbif.media answeredasked 2026-10-22none of the photographs on this page is credited to GBIF: those shown are other sources', and GBIF's were the same photographs or were set aside by the photograph rules
OpenAlex papers openalex not askednot yet asked for this reference; a later fill takes the papers from OpenAlex's snapshot

Every source is recorded as having answered, reported nothing, refused, failed, not been asked, or answered twice where one answer is taken (“not taken: two items answered”), and, for a source asked when this page was built, when: the figures are as the source held them that day; a source read from a file (Kew's World Checklist, a GBIF download) says "as of" the file's day instead; a row carried from an earlier build of the page names that build instead. Only “nothing to report” is ever shown as an absence. Records came from 6 datasets via GBIF.org; each carries its own licence.

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