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Carl Farmer |
Occasional on waste ground, beside paths, etc Flower umbels c 2-4 cm diameter. No flower pics yet, all pics are of droopy plant late in season. Fruits 3-4 mm long ID: Typical umbellifer flowers. Leaves doubly pinnate with much-divided segments, similar to Cow Parsley. Both upper and lower bracts present, narrow and undivided (Cow Parsley has no lower bracts Other features: Annual. Fruit has purple hooked bristles (Wild Carrot and Sanicle are the other local umbellifers with bristly fruit). Stems stiff, ridged, with downward-pointing appressed hairs. Upper and lower bracts often appressed to the umbel rays. |
