Botany

Ferula drudeana

Ferula drudeana is a species of flowering plant in the family Apiaceae, native to the Central Taurus Mountains area of Turkey. It has been proposed as a candidate for the possibly extinct silphium plant of antiquity. It is known from only three locations in Turkey, all sites of longstanding villages.

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See also

• ▸Hesperidanthus suffrutescens
• ▸Carl Frederick Wandel
• ▸Gentiana pneumonanthe

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