Fennel
ಸೊಂಪುसौंफ़சோம்பு
Foeniculum vulgare Mill.
- light
- Full sun
- water
- Medium
- tall
- 1.5 m
- wide
- 72 cm
Apiaceae
Also called Sweet Fennel, Wild fennel, Common fennel
Formerly Anethum dulce, Anethum foeniculum, Anethum minus, Anethum panmorium, and 16 more
When it flowers
Not known yet in the tropics: too few flowering observations to read a season from.
Read from iNaturalist photographs of it in flower. A month counts at 50% of the best month's flowering share (smoothed over three months) and 10% of its flowering count, from at least 100 flowering observations in the band.
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Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- PerennialKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- TemperateKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- Medit. to Ethiopia and W. NepalKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun (6 h or more)Read from NC State Extension, one source
- Height
- 1.2 m to 1.8 mRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Spread
- 46 cm to 99 cmRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Water
- Average: moist, well drainedRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Flowers
- YellowRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Coldest it survives
- -34.4 °C (USDA zone 4a)Read from NC State Extension, one source
Not known yet: heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (12)
- Spanish
- hinojo
- Indonesian
- Adas Manis
- Portuguese
- funcho
- French
- fenouil
- Hebrew
- שומר פשוט
- Catalan
- fonoll
- Italian
- finocchio
- root
- Adas, सौंफ, Rizyane
- Hungarian
- Édeskömény, kerti édeskömény
- Estonian
- Harilik apteegitill
- Basque
- Mihilu
- Georgian
- დიდი კამა
Where this comes from
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0 (observation counts)
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-26, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- NC State Extension, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA 4.0
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- 3D model: Foeniculum vulgare (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
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