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Love-in-a-mist
Nigella
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5 branches of this genus, most-observed first

Erobatos
sectionErobatos

Nigella
sectionNigella

Nigellastrum
sectionNigellastrum

Garidella
sectionGaridella

Komaroffia
sectionKomaroffia
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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In the old herbals & bestiaries

Herbarius
1485 · p.206

On Medical Materials in Six Books
Dioscorides · 1550 · p.435

Herbarius latinus (with Dutch synonyms)
1486 · p.203

Maria Sibylla Merian — Der rupsen begin, voedzel en wonderbaare verandering (1712)
Maria Sibylla Merian · 1717 · p.375

Latin Herbal
1484 · p.205

Latin Herbal with German Synonyms
1486 · p.206

Commentaries on the Six Books of Pedanius Dioscorides on Medical Matter
Pietro Andrea Mattioli · 1565 · p.968

Hortus Eystettensis
Basilius Besler · 1640 · p.198

Latin Herbal with German Synonyms
1484 · p.233

Herbarius latinus (with French synonyms)
1486 · p.207

Ortus sanitatis
1491 · p.209

Ortus sanitatis
1491 · p.284
In the stacks
Searching the stacks…
Every page naming Nigella in the Biodiversity Heritage Library →
This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 62314.