Garden Parsley - Petroselinum crispum
Petroselinum crispum is a low growing, bushy plant with rich green, crisped, 2 to 3 pinnate, aromatic leaves, and small yellow-green flowers which appear in umbels in the second year.
Photos of plant in habitat, plus details of flowers and leaves
Usually found as a casual garden escape fairly close to habitation.
Summer.
Biennial.
Recorded widely in England and Wales as a casual garden escape, less so in Scotland.
Occasional casual in Leicestershire and Rutland.
In the current Checklist (Jeeves, 2011) it is listed as Alien (archaeophyte); rare
It was on the 2011 VC55 Rare Plant Register (Jeeves, 2011) but because of its status as 'casual' it does not meet the criteria for the current RPR (Hall and Woodward, 2022)
David Nicholls
Ratby
26 April 2015
David Nicholls
Ratby
26 April 2015
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Species profile
- Common names
- Garden Parsley, Parsley
- Species group:
- Wildflowers
- Kingdom:
- Plantae
- Order:
- Apiales
- Family:
- Apiaceae
- Records on NatureSpot:
- 4
- First record:
- 26/04/2015 (Nicholls, David)
- Last record:
- 28/03/2019 (Bell, Melinda)
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