Taxon: Ammi majus L.

Common names:

• bishop's-weed   (Source: Econ Pl Aust ) – English
  
• bullwort   (Source: F BritStace ) – English
  
• false bishop's-weed   (Source: Zander ed17 ) – English
  
• greater ammi   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – English
  
• laceflower   (Source: Mansf Ency ) – English
  
• lady's-lace   (Source: P.K. Mukherjee, p.c.) – English
  
• khillah   (Source: Ill L Qatar ) – Arabic
  
• ammi élevé   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – French
  
• Bischofskraut   (Source: Zander ed17 ) – German
  
• große Knorpelmöhre   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – German
  
• großes Ammei   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – German
  
• rizzomolo   (Source: Mansf Ency ) – Italian
  
• visnaga maggiore   (Source: Mansf Ency ) – Italian
  
• âmio-maior   (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
  
• bisnaguinha-do-campo   (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
  
• cicuta-negra   (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
  
• ameo bastardo   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Spanish
  
• ameo mayor   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Spanish
  
• slöjsilja   (Source: Vara kulturvaxt namn ) – Swedish
  

Economic importance:

• Environmental: ornamental   (fide P. K. Mukherjee, pers. comm. 1996)
  
• Medicines: source of xanthotoxin   (fide Import Medicinal Pl; Herbs Commerce ed2)
  
• Vertebrate poisons: mammals   (fide Lampe & McCann; Kellerman et al., as A. majus var. glaucifolium; Econ Pl Aust)
  
• Weed: potential seed contaminant   (fide Econ Pl Aust)
  

More:

View toxicology references for Ammi majus from FDA Poisonous Plant Database

View phytochemical or ethnobotanical data from Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Distributional range:

• AFRICA
  Northern Africa: Algeria; Egypt; Libya; Morocco; Tunisia
  Northeast Tropical Africa: Ethiopia
• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  Arabian Peninsula: Kuwait
  Western Asia: Cyprus; Iran; Iraq; Israel; Jordan; Lebanon; Syria; Turkey
  Caucasus: Armenia
• ASIA-TROPICAL
  Indian Subcontinent: Pakistan
• EUROPE
  Southeastern Europe: Albania; Former Yugoslavia; Greece [incl. Crete]; Italy [incl. Sardinia, Sicily]
  Southwestern Europe: France [incl. Corsica]; Portugal; Spain [incl. Baleares]

• naturalized elsewhere

• AFRICA
  Northern Africa: Egypt
• ASIA-TROPICAL
  Indian Subcontinent: India; Pakistan
• EUROPE
  Europe

References:

• Aldén, B., S. Ryman & M. Hjertson. 2009. Våra kulturväxters namn - ursprung och användning. Formas, Stockholm (Handbook on Swedish cultivated and utility plants, their names and origin).
• Boulos, L. 1995. Flora of Egypt checklist.
• Davis, P. H., ed. 1965–1988. Flora of Turkey and the east Aegean islands.
• Erhardt, W. et al. 2002. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 17. Auflage.
• Eriksson, O. et al. 1979. Flora of Macaronesia: checklist of vascular plants, ed. 2.
• Farnsworth, N. R. & D. D. Soejarto. Global importance of medicinal plants (unpublished draft manuscript rev. 23, 1988)
• Groth, D. 2005. pers. comm. [re. Brazilian common names].
• Hanelt, P., ed. 2001. Mansfeld's encyclopedia of agricultural and horticultural crops. Volumes 1-6.
• Izquierdo Z., I. et al., eds. 2004. Lista de especies silvestres de Canarias: hongos, plantas y animales terrestres.
• Jahandiez, E. & R. Maire. 1931–1941. Catalogue des plantes du Maroc.
• Kartesz, J. T. 1994. A synonymized checklist of the vascular flora of the United States, Canada, and Greenland.
• Komarov, V. L. et al., eds. 1934–1964. Flora SSSR.
• Lampe, K. F. & M. A. McCann. 1985. AMA handbook of poisonous and injurious plants. [poisonous].
• Lazarides, M. & B. Hince. 1993. CSIRO Handbook of Economic Plants of Australia.
• Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium. 1976. Hortus third.
• Mansfeld, R. 1959. Die Kulturpflanze, Beiheft 2.
• McGuffin, M., J. T. Kartesz, A. Y. Leung, & A. O. Tucker. 2000. Herbs of commerce, ed. 2.
• Middleditch, B. S. & A. M. Amer. 1991. Kuwaiti plants: distribution, traditional medicine, phytochemistry,. economic value (Studies in Plant Science 2).
• Migahid, A. M. 1988–1990. Flora of Saudi Arabia, ed. 3.
• Mukherjee, P. K. & L. Constance. 1993. Umbelliferae (Apiaceae) of India.
• Mukherjee, P. K. 1996. pers. comm. [re. English common names].
• Nasir, E. & S. I. Ali, eds. 1970–. Flora of [West] Pakistan.
• Norton, J. et al. 2009. Illustrated checklist of the flora of Qatar.
• Pottier-Alapetite, G. 1979–1981. Flore de la Tunisie: Angiospermes-Dicotyledones.
• Quézel, P. & S. Santa. 1962–1963. Nouvelle flore de l'Algerie.
• Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants.
• Silva, L. et al. 2005. Listagem da fauna e flora terrestres dos Açores. Lista des plantas vasculares (Pteridophyta e Spermatophyta).
• Stace, C. 1995. New flora of the British Isles.
• Turrill, W. B. et al., eds. 1952–. Flora of tropical East Africa.
• Tutin, T. G. et al., eds. 1964–1980. Flora europaea.
• Zohary, M. & N. Feinbrun-Dothan. 1966–. Flora palaestina.

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Synonyms:

• (=) Ammi glaucifolium L.
  
• (=) Ammi majus var. glaucifolium (L.) Mérat
  

Check other web resources for Ammi majus L.:

• Flora Europaea: Database of European Plants (ESFEDS)
• Mansfeld: Mansfeld's World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops
• ePIC: Electronic Plant Information Centre of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
• AGRICOLA: Article Citation Database or NAL Catalog of USDA's National Agricultural Library
• Entrez: NCBI's search engine for PubMed citations, GenBank sequences, etc.

Images:

• GRIN Images of germplasm accessions.
• Seed: U.S. National Seed Herbarium image

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• Images Note: Be advised that their identity may be inaccurate. Proper identification of a plant may require specialized taxonomic knowledge or comparison with properly documented herbarium material.

Abbreviations & symbols in GRIN Taxonomy

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