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Reseda odorata; photograph (c) DDutrey, some rights reserved (CC BY) CC BY(c) DDutrey, some rights reserved (CC BY) · observed growing wild · 2025-08-20

Reseda odorata L.

Garden mignonette; Sweet mignonette; Fragrant mignonette; Bastard rocket

Resedaceae · Kriti, Egypt +1

No habitat climate
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Summary

Reseda odorata is a species of flowering plant in the reseda family known by many common names, including garden mignonette and common mignonette. It is probably native to the Mediterranean Basin, but it can sometimes be found growing in the wild as an introduced species in many parts of the world. These introductions are often garden escapees; the plant has long been kept as an ornamental plant for its fragrant flowers, the essential oil of which has been used in perfumes. This is an annual herb, producing branching erect stems to 80 centimeters in maximum height. More on Wikipedia ›

Quoted from Wikipedia, "Reseda odorata", CC BY-SA 4.0.

Cultivation

Nothing derived: no habitat climate for this species.

Climate across the habitat

No habitat climate can be derived: 3 in-range records, none placed to within 10 km. 3 of the 3 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.
Openly licensed records inside the range, framed on where they fall.
NativeKriti, Egypt, Libya · introduced: Great Britain, Austria, Czechoslovakia, Germany, Baleares, Spain, Greece, Italy, Romania, Yugoslavia, Baltic States, East European Russia, South European Russia, Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia, Zimbabwe, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, Tadzhikistan, Uzbekistan, Cyprus, Iraq, Palestine, China Southeast, Taiwan, India, Pakistan, South Australia, British Columbia, Wisconsin, Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Vermont, California, North Carolina, South Carolina, Trinidad-Tobago, Chile North · 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“annual or subshrub” · “temperate” · quoted from WCVP, RBG Kew (CC BY 4.0); not derived here
Evidence usedThe map marker rests on all 3 georeferenced records inside the native range, all openly licensed and shown on the map. 589 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. 3 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.

Photographs

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Photographs: (c) DDutrey, some rights reserved (CC BY) (3); (c) bythepark, some rights reserved (CC BY) (3).

Other Reseda 7 in the reference

Reseda alba Reseda alba White mignonette Photo: CC BY, Liadan DickieReseda complicata Reseda complicata Resedaceae Photo: CC BY, Flavien SaboureauReseda glauca Reseda glauca Resedaceae Photo: CC BY, Flavien SaboureauReseda lutea Reseda lutea Wild mignonette Photo: CC0, author not statedReseda luteola Reseda luteola Weld Photo: CC BY, Rex LeungReseda phyteuma Reseda phyteuma Corn Mignonette Photo: CC0, author not statedReseda suffruticosa Reseda suffruticosa Resedaceae Photo: CC BY, frangp

Names & registers

Also known as Reseda arborea; Reseda neilgherrensis; Reseda nilgherrensis; Reseda odorata f. pilosa; Reseda odorata var. neilgherrensis and 1 more. (GBIF Backbone)

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The record

Family
Resedaceae
Described by
L.
Native to
Kriti, Egypt, Libya
Wild records
3 in range · 3 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; 52 records within 1 km of a botanic garden, herbarium or zoo left out (33 at a botanic garden or arboretum, 6 at a herbarium, 13 at a zoo; Wikidata's list)
Habitat climate climate nothing to reportasked 2026-10-223 in-range records, none placed to within 10 km
Wikidata wikidata answeredasked 2026-10-22
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 2026-10-22
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 121 datasets via GBIF.org; each carries its own licence.

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