Cow Parsley

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Apiales

Apiaceae (Carrot)

Alexanders, Bladder-seed, Bur Chervil, Burnet-saxifrage, Cambridge Milk Parsley, Caraway, Common Hogweed, Coriander, Corky-fruited Water Dropwort, Corn Parsley, Cowbane, Creeping Marshwort, Cumin, Edible Carrot, False Thorow-wax, Field Eryngo, Fine-leaved Water Dropwort, Fool's Parsley, Fool's Watercress, Garden Angelica, Garden Parsley, Giant Fennel, Giant Hogweed, Great Pignut, Greater Burnet-saxifrage, Greater Water Parsnip, Ground Elder, Hartwort, Hemlock, Hemlock Water Dropwort, Hog's Fennel, Honewort, Knotted Hedge Parsley, Lesser Marshwort, Lesser Water Parsnip, Longleaf, Masterwort, Milk Parsley, Moon Carrot, Parsley Water Dropwort, Pepper-saxifrage, Pignut, Pink Masterwort, River Water Dropwort, Rock Samphire, Rough Chervil, Sanicle, Scots Lovage, Sea Carrot, Sea Holly, Shepherd's Needle, Shrubby Hare's-ear, Siberian Hogweed, Slender Hare's-ear, Small Hare's-ear, Spignel, Spreading Hedge Parsley, Stone Parsley, Sulphurwort, Sweet Cicely, Thorow-wax, Tubular Water Dropwort, Upright Hedge Parsley, Whorled Caraway, Wild Angelica, Wild Carrot, Wild Celery, Wild Fennel, Wild Parsnip

Flower

Perennial

1 metre tall

Hedgerows, meadows, riverbanks, roadsides, woodland.

White umbels without lower bracts, up to 6cm.

Hairless, elliptical, smooth and shiny, dark brown but turning black with maturity.

Divided leaves and feathery, fern-like.

The leaves smell strongly of aniseed when crushed.

Adder's Meat, Badman's Oatmeal, Blackman's Tobacco, Devil's Meat, Fairy Lace, Grandpa's Pepper, Hedge Parsley, Keck, Kecksie, Kex, Kill-your-mother-quick, Lady's Lace, Mother-die, Queen Anne's Lace, Queque, Rabbit Meal, Spanish Lace, Step-mother, Wild Beaked Parsley, Wild Chervil.

Abundant  

Bur Chervil

Rough Chervil


Sweet Cicely


Upright Hedge Parsley