Nigella sativa

Çörekotu

Plant ± pubescent or shortly viscid-hirsute, 15-30 cm, branched. Leaf laciniae oblong-lanceolate, rather short. Flowers not involucrate. Sepals whitish, ovate, shortly clawed. Petals with the lobes of the lower lip ovate, shortly stalked and bluntly acuminate. Carpels united to apex, forming a tuberculate, hard capsule as long as the styles. Seeds triquetrous. Fl. 5-7. In grain and fallow fields; locally cultivated, s.l.-900 m.

Probably native in S.W. Asia, cultivated and naturalised in Europe and N. Africa