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Spreading Chervil, Wild Chervil
Chaerophyllum procumbens (L.) Crantz.
Apiaceae, the Carrot Family
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Chaerophyllum procumbens
(L.)
Crantz; Spreading Chervil, Wild Chervil:
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Cool-season annual or biennial in the Carrot family
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First produces a rosette of overall triangular-shaped, but finely-divided leaves
with slight parsley odor; first leaves have longer petioles than those on
flowering stem (which may not have petioles); petiole bases expand to surround
stem, where present
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Inflorescences are open umbels of clusters of tiny white flowers; base of each
sub-umbel surrounded by five elongated bracts
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Fruit is hairless, upright, green, becoming yellow when ripe, about 0.25 inch
long
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Stems are smooth to slightly hairy, particularly on ridges
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Found in open woods, landscapes
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Similar
Southern Chervil (Chaerophyllum
tainturieri Hook.) has umbel
stems that are slightly swollen below the sub-umbel flower clusters, while
spreading chervil flowering stems are not swollen just below the flower clusters