Nigella damascena L. (Introduced) (Romania to W. & SW. Iran: Bulgaria, Cyprus, Iran, Iraq, North Caucasus, Romania, Transcaucasus, Turkey, Turkmenistan; Introduced into: Afghanistan, Algeria, Assam, Bangladesh, Central European Rus, Czechoslovakia, East Aegean Is., Egypt, Ethiopia, France, Greece, India, Italy, Kazakhstan, Kirgizstan, Krym, Libya, Morocco, Myanmar, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, Tadzhikistan, Tunisia, Turkey-in-Europe, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, Yemen, Yugoslavia as per POWO)
Nigella sativa L. (Introduced) (Romania to W. & SW. Iran: Bulgaria, Cyprus, Iran, Iraq, North Caucasus, Romania, Transcaucasus, Turkey, Turkmenistan; Introduced into: Afghanistan, Algeria, Assam, Bangladesh, Central European Rus, Czechoslovakia, East Aegean Is., Egypt, Ethiopia, France, Greece, India, Italy, Kazakhstan, Kirgizstan, Krym, Libya, Morocco, Myanmar, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, Tadzhikistan, Tunisia, Turkey-in-Europe, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, Yemen, Yugoslavia as per POWO)
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Flora of Peninsular India:
Nigella sativa var. indica (Cultivated) (syn. of Nigella sativa var. sativa)
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Species with description & keys from Flora of Pakistan (Distribution):
Nigella damascena L. (Southern Europe, Cyprus, S.W. Africa, Turkey, Syria, Iraq, Iran. According to Stewart, (l.c.) a common garden annual in Pakistan. Cultivated for ornamental purposes)
Nigella sativa L. (S. Europe, N. Africa, S.W. Asia. Cultivated mainly as a spice as far as Ethiopia)
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Species with distribution in annotated checklist of Flowering plants of Nepal (Distribution):
Nigella damascena L.
Nigella glandulifera Freyn et Sint (syn. of Nigella sativa var. hispidula Boiss. (SW. & NE. Iran to Turkmensitan))
Nigella sativa L.
