Coriandrum sativum
Tracheophyta
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Ecology
An annual, usually occurring as a casual on rubbish tips or disturbed ground, mostly from bird-seed and culinary sources; also established in a few places, such as on roadsides in N.W. Essex. Lowland.
Status
Neophyte
Trends
C. sativum was grown in Britain by 995 (Harvey, 1981). Although increasingly cultivated as a culinary herb, its distribution in the wild is limited by the fact that young plants are very frost-tender. It was first recorded from the wild in 1793.
World Distribution
Apparently native of N. Africa and W. Asia; widely naturalised in S. Europe and elsewhere.
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Broad Habitats
Light (Ellenberg): 8
Moisture (Ellenberg): 4
Reaction (Ellenberg): 6
Nitrogen (Ellenberg): 5
Salt Tolerance (Ellenberg): 0
January Mean Temperature (Celsius): 3.9
July Mean Temperature (Celsius): 16
Annual Precipitation (mm): 763
Height (cm): 50
Perennation - primary
Annual
Life Form - primary
Therophyte (annual land plant)
Woodiness
Herbaceous
Clonality - primary
Little or no vegetative spread
Count of 10km squares in Great Britain: 201
Count of 10km squares in Ireland: 2
Count of 10km squares in the Channel Isles: 3
JNCC Designations
NBNSYS0000003651