Nigella — 4 species
Botanical species in the genus Nigella recorded in the PlantPeers database.
Nigella arvensis
Nigella arvensis
Family: Ranunculaceae
Cultivation
An easily grown plant, succeeding in any good garden soil, preferring a sunny position. A greedy plant, inhibiting the growth of nearby plants, especially legumes.
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Nigella damascena
Nigella damascena
Family: Ranunculaceae
Cultivation
An easily grown plant, succeeding in any good garden soil, preferring a sunny position. Plants are fast-growing and often self-sow if the ground is disturbed by some means such as hoeing. They can spread from cultivation and sometimes become weeds in disturbed places such as rubbish dumps and waste ground, but there is no evidence that they invade native habitats.
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Nigella orientalis
Family: Ranunculaceae
Cultivation
An easily grown plant, succeeding in any good garden soil, preferring a sunny position. A greedy plant, inhibiting the growth of nearby plants, especially legumes.
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Nigella sativa
Nigella sativa
Family: Ranunculaceae
Cultivation
Nigella sativa is a plant of the subtropics, it can also be cultivated in the temperate zone and at higher elevations from 1,500 - 2,500 metres in the tropics. It grows best in areas where annual daytime temperatures are within the range 14 - 26°c, but can tolerate 5 - 30°c. It prefers a mean annual rainfall in the range 600 - 800mm, but tolerates 400 - 1,000mm.
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