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Pimpinella anisum L.

Anise burnet saxifrage; Anise; Sweet-cumin

Apiaceae · Cyprus, Lebanon-Syria +2

No habitat climate
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Summary

Anise, also called aniseed or rarely anix, is a flowering plant in the family Apiaceae native to the Eastern Mediterranean and Southwest Asia.

Quoted from Wikipedia, "Anise", 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 2 distinct land cells of the climate grid hold an in-range record placed to within 10 km; three are needed for an envelope. 14 of the 16 in-range records are 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 they count for the map and its marker.

Natural habitat

Native range as published by WCVP; the marker is where the records are densest and decides nothing.
Openly licensed records inside the range, framed on where they fall.
NativeCyprus, Lebanon-Syria, Palestine, Turkey · introduced: Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Austria, Czechoslovakia, Germany, Hungary, Poland, France, Portugal, Spain, Bulgaria, Greece, Italy, Kriti, Romania, Yugoslavia, Belarus, Baltic States, South European Russia, Ukraine, Morocco, Tunisia, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, Tadzhikistan, Uzbekistan, East Aegean Is., Iraq, Oman, Xinjiang, Bangladesh, India, Laos, Massachusetts, Michigan, Guatemala, Leeward Is. AB Ant, Trinidad-Tobago, Venezuela, Brazil South, Argentina Northeast, Argentina Northwest · 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).
Map marker32.437, 35.217 · in the densest population, 10 records (63% of those in range)
Kew's description“annual” · “temperate” · quoted from WCVP, RBG Kew (CC BY 4.0); not derived here
Evidence usedThe map marker rests on all 16 georeferenced records inside the native range; the map shows only the 13 openly licensed ones, which alone would put the marker in the same place. 312 records outside the WCVP native range not used. No climate across the range is derived for this species. 14 in-range records are placed to worse than 10 km, or with no stated accuracy (admitted only as a person's observation to three decimals), and stay on the map but off the climate.
How this section is made
The map marker: the openly licensed record nearest the middle of the densest 1° population of the 16 in-range records; it decides nothing. Records outside the native range, living specimens and records marked introduced are not used; which records count.

Photographs

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Photographs: Pradela Amanda P., CC BY-SA, via GBIF (2); Perez Paula, CC BY-SA, via GBIF; Chérif-Jacques Allali, CC BY-SA, via GBIF; Burkhard Mücke, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons; F ASTILY, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

Other Pimpinella 11 in the reference

Pimpinella anagodendron Apiaceae Pimpinella cumbrae Pimpinella cumbrae Apiaceae Photo: CC BY, Elizabete MarchantePimpinella lutea Pimpinella lutea Apiaceae Photo: CC BY-SA, fatima.pes1Pimpinella major Pimpinella major Greater burnet-saxifrage Photo: CC BY, Thomas EbnerPimpinella niitakayamensis Pimpinella niitakayamensis Apiaceae Photo: CC BY, Cheng-Te HsuPimpinella peregrina Pimpinella peregrina Apiaceae Photo: CC BY, Eleftherios KatsillisPimpinella rhodantha Pimpinella rhodantha Apiaceae Photo: CC BY, Наталья ПикаловаPimpinella saxifraga Pimpinella saxifraga Burnet-saxifrage Photo: CC0, author not statedPimpinella tragium Pimpinella tragium Apiaceae Photo: CC BY, Stanislav MurashkinPimpinella tripartita Pimpinella tripartita Apiaceae Photo: CC BY, Илья РуденкоPimpinella villosa Pimpinella villosa Iberian burnet saxifrage Photo: CC BY, David Pereira

Names & registers

Also known as Anisum odoratum; Anisum officinale; Anisum officinarum; Anisum vulgare; Apium anisum and 10 more. (GBIF Backbone)

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The record

Family
Apiaceae
Described by
L.
Native to
Cyprus, Lebanon-Syria, Palestine +1
Wild records
16 in range · 13 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; 28 records within 1 km of a botanic garden, herbarium or zoo left out (16 at a botanic garden or arboretum, 12 at a zoo; Wikidata's list)
Habitat climate climate nothing to reportasked 2026-10-22only 2 distinct land cells of the climate grid hold 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 846658-1 is Kew's for Pimpinella anisum L.
Wikipedia wikipedia answeredasked 2026-10-22Wikipedia's article Anise, the English article of this species' Wikidata item (Q28692)
iNaturalist photographs, wild inat.photos.wild nothing to reportasked 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 2026-10-22
Wikimedia Commons commons answeredasked 2026-10-22
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 122 datasets via GBIF.org; each carries its own licence.

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