Thapsia gummifera

Thapsia gummifera
	In bloom in Portugal
	Botanical illustration
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Eudicots
Clade:	Asterids
Order:	Apiales
Family:	Apiaceae
Genus:	Thapsia
Species:	T. gummifera
Binomial name
	Thapsia gummifera; (Desf.) Spreng.
Synonyms
	Laserpitium gummiferum Desf.; Margotia gummifera (Desf.) Lange; Margotia laserpitioides Boiss.;

Thapsia gummifera (syn. Margotia gummifera) is a species of flowering plant in the family Apiaceae, native to the western Mediterranean; Portugal, Spain, Morocco, Algeria, and Tunisia.^[1] It has been proposed as a candidate for the plant known in antiquity as silphium and gone extinct in Libya in the 5th century.^[2]