§1 Plant
Carum carvi L.
vernacular caraway — species · Apiaceae
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Forb/herb
- Duration
- Biennial, Perennial
- Group
- Dicot
- Family
- Apiaceae Lindl.
- Genus
- Carum
§2a
Native status, by region
- CAN Canada Introduced
- GL Greenland Introduced
- L48 Lower 48 States Introduced
- SPM St. Pierre & Miquelon Introduced
§2b
County-level range
· 130 counties across 13 states/territories§3Cultivation
No cultivation specs.
USDA has not characterised this taxon. Roughly four out of five plants in the database lack the detailed cultivation record present here — typically because they have not been the focus of NRCS Plant Materials work. Range and distribution data are unaffected.
§4Counties, by state
Recorded in 130 counties across 13 states/territories.
District of Columbia view state ↗ 1 I ▾
Kentucky view state ↗ 4 I ▾
Maine view state ↗ 15 I ▾
Massachusetts view state ↗ 11 I ▾
Montana view state ↗ 17 I ▾
New Hampshire view state ↗ 9 I ▾
New Jersey view state ↗ 3 I ▾
New York view state ↗ 30 I ▾
- Albany 36001
- Allegany 36003
- Bronx 36005
- Cattaraugus 36009
- Cayuga 36011
- Delaware 36025
- Dutchess 36027
- Erie 36029
- Essex 36031
- Hamilton 36041
- Jefferson 36045
- Kings 36047
- Lewis 36049
- Livingston 36051
- Madison 36053
- Nassau 36059
- Niagara 36063
- Oneida 36065
- Onondaga 36067
- Queens 36081
- Richmond 36085
- Rockland 36087
- Suffolk 36103
- Tioga 36107
- Tompkins 36109
- Ulster 36111
- Warren 36113
- Washington 36115
- Wayne 36117
- Westchester 36119
Pennsylvania view state ↗ 23 I ▾
- Allegheny 42003
- Beaver 42007
- Bedford 42009
- Berks 42011
- Bradford 42015
- Bucks 42017
- Cambria 42021
- Centre 42027
- Elk 42047
- Erie 42049
- Lackawanna 42069
- Lebanon 42075
- Lehigh 42077
- McKean 42083
- Monroe 42089
- Philadelphia 42101
- Potter 42105
- Somerset 42111
- Sullivan 42113
- Susquehanna 42115
- Tioga 42117
- Warren 42123
- Wayne 42127
Rhode Island view state ↗ 1 I ▾
Vermont view state ↗ 13 I ▾
Virginia view state ↗ 2 I ▾
West Virginia view state ↗ 1 I ▾
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/CACA19 ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/3034714 ↗Record version
Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:
usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26
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