title: Ferula foetida
text: # Ferula foetida
  
  Ferula foetida is a species of Ferula native to Central Asia (Kyzylkum Desert, Karakum Desert, Turkmenistan), Eastern Iran, western Afghanistan and western Pakistan. It is the most widely distributed species that produces asafoetida. It is often mistaken for the Southern Iranian species F. assa-foetida, for example, in Flora of the U.S.S.R. and Flora of Pakistan.
  
  * Plants
  * Basal leaves
  * Stem
  * Compound inflorescence
  * Umbels
  