Common name:
Garden parsley
Family:
Scientific name:
Petroselinum crispum
Main flower color:
Range:
Across most of England and Wales; sometimes a garden escape
Height:
Up to 60 cm
Habitat:
Disturbed ground, rocky places, rough grassland
Flowers:
White, often tinged with yellow or green, in compound umbels up to 5 cm in diameter, with both bracts and bracteoles, on top of a solid, ridged, hairless stem
Leaves:
Pinnately divided up to 3 times into triangular leaflets, with palmate veins, wedge-shaped bases and coarsely-toothed tips
Season:
June to August
Rarity:
★★★★★
