Skye Flora

Whorled Caraway


Carum verticillatum

 

Carum verticillatum

Photo © John Birks
Department of Biology, University of Bergen
(Aug 1976 Lot's Wife, Dumfries & Galloway)

Rare, in damp acid places.

Umbels c 2-5 cm diameter.  Stems up to 60 cm tall, a smaller plant than most umbellifers.

Skye ID: Leaves have linear leaflets arranged in whorls.

Other features: Umbels have both upper and lower bracts, short, narrow and reflexed.  Fruit broadly oval, ridged.

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Carum verticillatum

Photo © John Birks
Department of Biology, University of Bergen
(Aug 1975 Loch Ken)

  Carum verticillatum

Photo © John Birks
Department of Biology, University of Bergen
Aug 1984 Sligachan


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