Carrot Family [Apiaceae] |
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5th Aug 2011, Little Langdale, Cumbria. | Photo: © RWD |
One of the three common hedgerow umbellifers: the last to flower between Cow Parsley(Anthriscus sylvestris) and Rough Chervil (Chaerophyllum temulum). |
15th Aug 2016, Hendre, Nr. Ruthin, North Wales | Photo: © RWD |
An upright plant growing to 120cm hign. |
5th Aug 2011, Little Langdale, Cumbria. | Photo: © RWD |
Grows up to 1.2m high on hedgebanks, scrub and woodland edges including beside forestry tracks. Has stiffer stems than either Cow Parsleyor Rough Chervil |
5th Aug 2011, Little Langdale, Cumbria. | Photo: © RWD |
Upper half - by silhouette. Stems quite thin but stiff. A small leaf at every branching, which are larger the lower down the stem. Umbels with maybe between 5 to 9 umbellets. Both umbels and umbellules have bracts (narrow linear). |
5th Aug 2011, Little Langdale, Cumbria. | Photo: © RWD |
Usually with bracts underneath the umbel and sub-umbels, but the bracts are often just underneath the 'spokes' of the umbels and therefore usually hidden from view. |
9th Aug 2012, Allithwaite, Cumbria. | Photo: © RWD |
Umbels between 20 to 40mm across. |
31st July 2015, Wiseman Hey Plantation, Ladybower Resr, Derbys. | Photo: © RWD |
With insect showing the small size of the umbels. |
31st July 2015, Wiseman Hey Plantation, Ladybower Resr, Derbys. | Photo: © RWD |
Flowers white or pink. |
31st July 2015, Wiseman Hey Plantation, Ladybower Resr, Derbys. | Photo: © RWD |
An umbellule of flowers with bracts underneath and closely following the flower stalks, as if stalking it... |
5th Aug 2011, Little Langdale, Cumbria. | Photo: © RWD |
Tiny flowers maybe 3 or 4mm across, most actinomorphic, only the outer ones slightly zygomorphic. |
31st July 2015, Wiseman Hey Plantation, Ladybower Resr, Derbys. | Photo: © RWD |
Flowers are white or pink with 5 red anthers. |
31st July 2015, Wiseman Hey Plantation, Ladybower Resr, Derbys. | Photo: © RWD |
At first the stamens curve over within folds in the petals holing the anther upside down, ready to spring out and high on filaments. |
31st July 2015, Wiseman Hey Plantation, Ladybower Resr, Derbys. | Photo: © RWD |
The flower unfolds ready to allow the stamens with in-rolled red anthers to spring outwards and upwards. |
31st July 2015, Wiseman Hey Plantation, Ladybower Resr, Derbys. | Photo: © RWD |
Anthers deep red, like those on Water-dropworts such as Hemlock Water-Dropwort. |
31st July 2015, Wiseman Hey Plantation, Ladybower Resr, Derbys. | Photo: © RWD |
The fruit develops behind the flower. |
31st July 2015, Wiseman Hey Plantation, Ladybower Resr, Derbys. | Photo: © RWD |
The petals drop off the top revealing the fruits underneath, which appear brown, but actually are a mixture of red and green (making a muddy brown). Narrow linear bracts can be seen underneath umbels and umbellules. |
5th Aug 2011, Little Langdale, Cumbria. | Photo: © RWD |
The fruits are barrel-shaped and are surrounded by vertical rows of spines. |
5th Aug 2011, Little Langdale, Cumbria. | Photo: © RWD |
The fruits have ridges along which the spines emerge. Two magenta-coloured styles splayed-out at 180° can be seen sitting atop of the fruit. |
31st July 2015, Wiseman Hey Plantation, Ladybower Resr, Derbys. | Photo: © RWD |
An umbellet of fruits. |
31st July 2015, Wiseman Hey Plantation, Ladybower Resr, Derbys. | Photo: © RWD |
The white and red spines on the fruits are curved inwards like horns, and taper towards the tip which. Your Author thinks the white triangular shapes at the summit are the sepals of the flowers (not all umbellifers have sepals). |
31st July 2015, Wiseman Hey Plantation, Ladybower Resr, Derbys. | Photo: © RWD |
The curved spines are covered in very short white teeth. The sharpened tip of each spine is transparent. One of the styles (with a black termination) is seen at the summit, bent over towards the viewer and to the left. |
31st July 2015, Wiseman Hey Plantation, Ladybower Resr, Derbys. | Photo: © RWD |
The bristly hairs on the stem are shorter than the spines on the fruit, are transparent white and devoid of the short white teeth as on fruit spines. |
15th Aug 2016, Hendre, Nr. Ruthin, North Wales | Photo: © RWD |
The leaves half-way up. |
9th Aug 2012, Allithwaite, Cumbria. | Photo: © RWD |
Upper leaf: 1-3 pinnate leaves, the lower ones more likely to be 3-pinnate, the uppermost just 1-pinnate. |
5th Aug 2011, Little Langdale, Cumbria. | Photo: © RWD |
Both stems, stalks and leaves have forwardly-appressed white bristly hairs giving it a slight rough feel. Uppermost leaf: A neat tightly-pinnate curving over gracefully. The roughness of each spine on the fruit is presumably to aid its translocation by attaching to the fur of passing animals. It seems to work; if you find one plant, you may find them scattered about the area too. |
5th Aug 2011, Little Langdale, Cumbria. | Photo: © RWD |
Upper leaf: Tightly appressed forwardly-directed short bristly hairs. Hairs on leaf-edges too. |
9th Aug 2012, Allithwaite, Cumbria. | Photo: © RWD |
Not-inflated bracts at each junction. |
31st July 2015, Wiseman Hey Plantation, Ladybower Resr, Derbys. | Photo: © RWD |
Lower leaves are larger and up to 3-pinnate. |
31st July 2015, Wiseman Hey Plantation, Ladybower Resr, Derbys. | Photo: © RWD |
Lower leaf: The plant is greyish-green. |
Not to be semantically confused with : Parsley Fern [plants with similar names belonging to differing families] nor to Garden Parsley, Fools Parsley, Many similarities to other Hedge-parsleys :
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