Nigella sativa
Germany (I), Bulgaria (I), Slovakia (I), Hungary (I), Italy (I), Croatia (I), Poland (I), Romania (I), France (I), Crimea (I), European Russia (I), Ukraine (I), Kazakhstan (I), Libya (I), Tunisia (I), Algeria (I), Morocco (I), Northern Caucasus, Armenia, Georgia [Caucasus], Azerbaijan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan (I), Afghanistan (I), trop. Africa (I), Turkey (N-Anatolia, NE-Anatolia, NW-Anatolia: Bithynia, S-Anatolia, SE-Anatolia, SSW-Anatolia), Cyprus (C-Mountains, N-Cyprus), Egypt (Nile Delta), European Turkey, Iran (NE-Iran: Mts., W-Iran), Iraq (NE-Iraq, NW-Iraq, SE-Iraq: Mesopotamia, W-Iraq: Desert), Syria (C-Syrian Desert), Qatar (I), Yemen (N-Inner Yemen), Myanmar [Burma] (Kachin, Sagaing), India, Nepal, USA (I) (Connecticut (I)) 164880 0
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Based on Georgiades (1995).
Alien: Casual. Cultivated fields and waste ground; sea level to ca 1000' - no sites listed for Division 3.
Its seeds are used in medicine and baking.
Meikle RD (1977) Flora of Cyprus, Vol 1.
Georgiades C (1995) Η επιγενής χλωρίδα της Κύπρου. Ταξινομική, χλωριδικά, φυτογεωγραφική, οικοφυσιολογική μελέτη. [The adventive flora of Cyprus, taxonomic, floristic, phytogeographic, ecophysiological study]. Ph.D. Thesis, Athens University.
Hadjikyriakou G (2005) Contribution to the study of the flora of Cyprus 2 [Συμβολή στη μελέτη της χλωρίδας της Κύπρου 2]. Dasoponos 23: 7-10.