Index / Search / Foeniculum vulgare
§1 Plant
Foeniculum vulgare Mill.
vernacular sweet fennel — species · Apiaceae
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Forb/herb
- Duration
- Biennial, Perennial
- Group
- Dicot
- Family
- Apiaceae Lindl.
- Genus
- Foeniculum
§2a
Native status, by region
- CAN Canada Introduced
- HI Hawaii Introduced
- L48 Lower 48 States Introduced
- PR Puerto Rico Introduced
- VI U.S. Virgin Islands Introduced
§2b
County-level range
· 132 counties across 21 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 132 counties across 21 states/territories.
Arizona view state ↗ 3 I ▾
Florida view state ↗ 1 I ▾
Georgia view state ↗ 4 I ▾
Illinois view state ↗ 1 I ▾
Iowa view state ↗ 1 I ▾
Kansas view state ↗ 2 I ▾
Louisiana view state ↗ 3 I ▾
Massachusetts view state ↗ 4 I ▾
Michigan view state ↗ 4 I ▾
Missouri view state ↗ 4 I ▾
New Jersey view state ↗ 6 I ▾
New York view state ↗ 8 I ▾
North Carolina view state ↗ 27 I ▾
- Alamance 37001
- Beaufort 37013
- Brunswick 37019
- Buncombe 37021
- Cabarrus 37025
- Carteret 37031
- Chatham 37037
- Chowan 37041
- Cumberland 37051
- Currituck 37053
- Davidson 37057
- Forsyth 37067
- Franklin 37069
- Guilford 37081
- Halifax 37083
- Henderson 37089
- Hyde 37095
- Iredell 37097
- Lincoln 37109
- Macon 37113
- New Hanover 37129
- Onslow 37133
- Orange 37135
- Rockingham 37157
- Rowan 37159
- Transylvania 37175
- Yadkin 37197
Pennsylvania view state ↗ 7 I ▾
South Carolina view state ↗ 5 I ▾
Tennessee view state ↗ 5 I ▾
Vermont view state ↗ 1 I ▾
Virginia view state ↗ 37 I ▾
- Accomack 51001
- Albemarle 51003
- Amelia 51007
- Appomattox 51011
- Augusta 51015
- Buckingham 51029
- Campbell 51031
- Chesapeake (city) 51550
- Chesterfield 51041
- Dinwiddie 51053
- Essex 51057
- Gloucester 51073
- Halifax 51083
- Hampton (city) 51650
- Henrico 51087
- Isle of Wight 51093
- James City 51095
- King and Queen 51097
- King George 51099
- King William 51101
- Lancaster 51103
- Mathews 51115
- Middlesex 51119
- Newport News (city) 51700
- Northampton 51131
- Northumberland 51133
- Orange 51137
- Prince Edward 51147
- Prince George 51149
- Rockingham 51165
- Smyth 51173
- Stafford 51179
- Suffolk (city) 51800
- Tazewell 51185
- Virginia Beach (city) 51810
- Westmoreland 51193
- York 51199
West Virginia view state ↗ 2 I ▾
Wisconsin view state ↗ 2 I ▾
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/FOVU ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/3034922 ↗Record version
Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:
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