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|accepted_name=Nigella
|accepted_authority=Linnaeus
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Sp. Pl.
|place=1: 534. 175
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|title=Gen. Pl. ed.
|place=5, 238. 1754
|year=1754
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|common_names=Love-in-a-mist
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Ranunculaceae;Nigella
|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>
|etymology=Latin niger, black, and ella, diminutive; pertaining to seeds
|volume=Volume 3
|mention_page=
|treatment_page=
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Herbs,</b> annual, from taproots. <b>Leaves</b> basal and cauline, petiolate or distal leaves sessile; cauline leaves alternate. <b>Leaf</b> blade 2-3-pinnately dissected, segments linear, threadlike [ovate or oblong or sometimes undivided, short], margins entire. <b>Inflorescences</b> terminal or axillary, flowers solitary; involucres present [absent], involucral bracts 5-6, finely pinnately dissected, closely subtending flower. <b>Flowers</b> bisexual, radially symmetric; sepals persistent in fruit, 5-25, blue to white or pink [yellowish white or green], plane, ovate, clawed [not clawed], 8-25 mm, apex acuminate; petals (0-)5-10, distinct, lead-colored, hooded, obovate, 2-labiate, 2-5 mm; nectary apical; stamens 15-75; filaments filiform; staminodes absent between stamens and pistils; pistil compound [carpels connate proximally], [2-]5-10-carpellate; ovules 25-100; style present. <b>Fruits</b> capsular [partially connate follicles], sessile, inflated-spheric [not inflated], sides not prominently veined; beak terminal, straight, 13-20 mm. <b>Seeds</b> black, broadly obovate, reticulate, with raised ridges. <b>x</b>=6.</span><!--

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|distribution=North America;s Europe;sw;c Asia;n Africa.
|discussion=<p>Species ca. 20 (1 in the flora).</p>
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|references={{Treatment/Reference
|id=mitchell1982a
|text=Mitchell, R. S. and J. K. Dean. 1982. Ranunculaceae (Crowfoot Family) of New York State. Bull. New York State Mus. Sci. Serv. 446.
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|id=zohary1983a
|text=Zohary, M. 1983. The genus Nigella (Ranunculaceae)--A taxonomic revision. Pl. Syst. Evol. 142: 71-107.
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name=Nigella
|author=Bruce A. Ford
|authority=Linnaeus
|rank=genus
|parent rank=family
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Ranunculaceae
|distribution=North America;s Europe;sw;c Asia;n Africa.
|reference=mitchell1982a;zohary1983a
|publication title=Sp. Pl.;Gen. Pl. ed.
|publication year=;1754
|special status=
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|genus=Nigella
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