Petroselinum crispum

Scientific name: Petroselinum crispum (Mill.) Nyman ex A.W. Hill
Common name: Garden Parsley

Description
Habit: A hairless biennial to 75 cm high; aromatic.
Stems: Solid.
Leaves: Lower leaves triangular 2-3-pinnate and shiny with oval, lobed leaflets; upper leaves usually ternate with entire, linear leaflets.
Flowers: Greenish yellow, on flat-topped umbels, on long stalks, with 10-20 slender rays; bracts 1-3, bracteoles several; petals 5, free; stamens 5; ovary inferior and 2-celled.
Fruits: A schizocarp, 2-2.5 mm, broadly ovoid, greenish brown, aromatic.

Habitat: Walls of old castles.
Distribution: Very rare.

Native status: Not native
Of conservation interest: No

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