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|accepted_name=Nigella damascena
|accepted_authority=Linnaeus
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Sp. Pl.
|place=1: 534. 1753
|year=1753
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|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=F
|label=Illustrated
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|code=I
|label=Introduced
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|hierarchy=Ranunculaceae;Nigella;Nigella damascena
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Ranunculaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Nigella]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Nigella damascena]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 3
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Stems </b>erect, slender, 10-75 cm, glabrous. <b>Leaves</b> 2-16 cm; basal leaves petiolate, segments wider than ±sessile cauline leaves. <b>Inflorescences</b>: involucral bracts whorled, similar to cauline leaves, curving up to surround flower. <b>Flowers</b> 10-50(-60) mm diam.; sepals blue, sometimes pink or white, short-clawed, 8-25 × 3-15 mm, apex entire to irregularly incised or lobed, occasionally lacerate; petals clawed, abaxial lip distally 2-lobed, bearing 2-3 nectar glands or apex expanded, adaxial lip scalelike. <b>Capsules</b> smooth, 8-35 mm; locules 5-10; beak persistent, slender.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering late spring–early fall.
|habitat=Dump sites and waste places
|elevation=0-400 m
|distribution=B.C.;Ont.;Que.;Ill.;Kans.;Md.;Mich.;Mo.;N.Y.;Ohio;Oreg.;Pa.;Tenn.;W.Va.;native to Eurasia.
|discussion=<p><i>Nigella damascena</i> is frequently cultivated as an ornamental and for dried-flower arrangements. It occasionally escapes cultivation and may become established. Populations in Ontario and Quebec, and probably elsewhere, are short-lived.</p><!--
--><p>Most North American populations of <i>Nigella damascena</i> are represented by a mixture of single- and double-flowered (having supernumerary flower parts) individuals. Sepals tend to be larger and more variable in color than in Eurasian plants. Single-flowered plants usually have petals; petals appear to be absent in double-flowered individuals.</p>
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name=Nigella damascena
|authority=Linnaeus
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Ranunculaceae
|phenology=Flowering late spring–early fall.
|habitat=Dump sites and waste places
|elevation=0-400 m
|distribution=B.C.;Ont.;Que.;Ill.;Kans.;Md.;Mich.;Mo.;N.Y.;Ohio;Oreg.;Pa.;Tenn.;W.Va.;native to Eurasia.
|introduced=true
|reference=None
|publication title=Sp. Pl.
|publication year=1753
|special status=Illustrated;Introduced
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|genus=Nigella
|species=Nigella damascena
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