(yet another) Umbellifer for ID please

Chris Dennis · #1 (**permalink**) 25-07-2011, 12:50 AM

Hello folks

I'm new to this forum. I've been looking through the archives, and I see lots of requests to identify umbellifers. None of them fit mine though.

It has appeared this summer in a patch of garden that was dug up a bit last winter and then left to go wild.

It's about a metre tall, hairless, with hollow stems.

I've also just started a catalogue of wild flowers in our garden -- very early stages yet, but it's at www.fbcs.co.uk/wp/meadow-species.

Thanks,

Chris

the young hunter · #2 (**permalink**) 25-07-2011, 01:04 AM

Think it could be Wild Carrot.

Mike.

aeshna5 · #3 (**permalink**) 25-07-2011, 04:33 AM

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Originally Posted by the young hunter

Think it could be Wild Carrot.

Mike.

No, it's Fool's Parsley, Aethusa cynapium.

Johnny Redgate · #4 (**permalink**) 25-07-2011, 05:43 AM

I agree, Fool's Parsley.

Chris Dennis · #5 (**permalink**) 25-07-2011, 09:06 AM

Fool's Parsley certainly fits. It fooled me because the illustration in the Collins guide has bigger, more mature inflorescences. I'll check the seeds when they appear.

Thank you.

cheers

Chris