Higher Taxonomy
Common Name: CARROT FAMILY Habit: Annual to perennial herb [shrub, tree], generally from taproot. Stem: generally +- scapose, generally ribbed, hollow. Leaf: basal and generally cauline, generally alternate; stipules generally 0; petiole base generally sheathing stem; blade generally much dissected, occasionally compound. Inflorescence: umbel or head, simple or compound, generally peduncled; bracts present in involucres or 0; bractlets generally present in "involucels". Flower: many, small, generally bisexual (or some staminate), generally radial (or outer bilateral); calyx 0 or lobes 5, small; petals 5, free, generally ovate or spoon-shaped, generally incurved at tips, generally +- ephemeral; stamens 5; pistil 1, ovary inferior, 2-chambered, generally with a +- conic, persistent projection or platform at tip subtending 2 free styles. Fruit: 2 dry, 1-seeded halves (= mericarps), separating from each other but generally +- persistent to central axis; ribs on halves 5, 2 marginal, 3 to back; oil tubes 1--several per interval between ribs. Genera In Family: 300 genera, 3000 species: +- worldwide, especially temperate; many cultivated for food or spice (e.g., Carum, caraway; Daucus; Petroselinum); Bupleurum lancifolium Hornem. is historical garden weed; some toxic (e.g., Conium). Note: Mature fruit generally critical in identification, shape given in outline. Hydrocotyle moved to Araliaceae, Orogenia moved to Lomatium, Sphenosciadium moved to Angelica. Petroselinum crispum (Mill.) A.W. Hill is a waif. eFlora Treatment Author: Lincoln Constance & Margriet Wetherwax, except as noted Scientific Editor: Douglas H. Goldman, Bruce G. Baldwin.
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Petroselinum
Habit: Biennial, taprooted, glabrous. Stem: erect, branched. Leaf: blade oblong to triangular-ovate, 1--3-pinnate or ternate-pinnate, leaflets lance-linear to obovate, toothed or lobed. Inflorescence: umbels compound; bracts 0--few, narrow; bractlets several, narrow; rays, pedicels few to +- many, spreading-ascending. Flower: calyx lobes minute; petals wide, +- green-yellow or white. Fruit: oblong to ovate, +- compressed side-to-side; ribs thread-like; oil tube 1 per rib-interval; fruit axis divided to base. Seed: face flat. Species In Genus: 2 species: Eurasia (1 cultivated, occasionally weedy). Etymology: (Greek: stone wreath; name used by Dioscorides) Jepson eFlora Author: Lincoln Constance & Margriet Wetherwax Index of California Plant Names (ICPN; linked via the Jepson Online Interchange)
Previous taxon: Perideridia pringleiNext taxon: Petroselinum crispum
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Citation for this treatment: Lincoln Constance & Margriet Wetherwax 2012, Petroselinum, in Jepson Flora Project (eds.) Jepson eFlora, https://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/eflora/eflora_display.php?tid=10210, accessed on April 19, 2024.
Citation for the whole project: Jepson Flora Project (eds.) 2024, Jepson eFlora, https://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/eflora/, accessed on April 19, 2024.
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