The plant grows in the Levant, including: western Syria,[6] the Mediterranean coast of Lebanon and Mount Lebanon up to an altitude of 1000 m,[7] on the Golan Heights, in most of the northern and central part of Israel and the West Bank (Upper and Lower Galilee, around the Sea of Galilee, on Mount Carmel and the Coastal Plain south of it, Mount Gilboa, the northern part of the Jordan Valley, Samaria, the Judean mountains and the Shefela), and the mouintainous Gilead region in Jordan[8] (the areas of Jarash and Dibeen, Ajloun, and Salt).[4]