Annuals Dictionary: Nigella
Buttercup family
Ranunculaceae
Ny-jell’a. About 20 herbaceous annual species, mostly natives of the Mediterranean region.
Description
Leaves alternate, often of lacelike appearance because of finely divided, threadlike segments. Flowers blue or white, produced at ends of branching stems, each flower enclosed by much-branched, threadlike bracts growing from base. Petals 5-8, notched. Stamens indefinite in number. Pistils usually 5-10, separated at top, but united at base.
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