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Wild Chervil, Cow Parsley

Anthriscus sylvestris (L.) Hoff.

Apiaceae, the Carrot Family

▲▼Mature, flowering plant, with fruit in center right (above)

Anthriscus sylvestris  (L.) Hoff.; Wild Chervil, Cow Parsley:  (Bayer Code:  ANRSY; US Code ANSY)

·         Cool-season annual or biennial in the Carrot family

          ·         First produces a rosette of overall triangular-shaped, but finely-divided leaves with slight herbal odor

          ·         Inflorescences are open umbels of clusters of tiny white flowers; base of each sub-umbel surrounded by five oval bracts with hairy edges

          ·         Individual flowers often have one larger petal toward outside of umbel

          ·         Fruit is hairless, upright, green, becoming yellow when ripe, about 0.25 inch long

          ·         Stems are smooth to slightly hairy, particularly on ridges; base of leaves surround stem

          ·         More common in northern and eastern midwest

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Posted 15 January 2019