West Highland Flora

Upright Hedge Parsley


Torilis japonica

 

Torilis japonica

Photo © Carl Farmer
15 Sep 2003 North Berwick, East Lothian

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.

 

Torilis japonica

Photo © Carl Farmer
15 Sep 2003 North Berwick, East Lothian
 

  Torilis japonica

Photo © Carl Farmer
15 Sep 2003 North Berwick, East Lothian

Fresh fruits   Mature fruits

 

Torilis japonica

Photo © Carl Farmer
15 Sep 2003 North Berwick, East Lothian
 

Remind me again why it's called "Upright" Hedge Parsley...


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