Selinum carvifolia

Selinum carvifolia
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Asterids
Order: Apiales
Family: Apiaceae
Genus: Selinum
Species:
S. carvifolia
Binomial name
Selinum carvifolia
(L.) L.
Synonyms[1]
  • Angelica carvifolia var. pratensis Wallr.
  • Angelica carvifolia var. prolifera Klett & Richt.
  • Angelica carvifolia var. sylvatica Wallr., not validly publ.
  • Angelica carvifolia (L.) Vill.
  • Athamanta carvifolia (L.) Weber
  • Carum sulcatum Steud.
  • Carvi sulcatum Bernh., nom. superfl.
  • Cnidium carvifolium (L.) M.Bieb.
  • Laserpitium selinoides Scop., nom. illeg.
  • Ligusticum carvifolia Caruel
  • Mylinum carvifolium (L.) Gaudin
  • Oreoselinum pseudocarvifolium Hoffm.
  • Peucedanum cuneifolium Vill. ex Steud., not validly publ.
  • Selinon carvifolium (L.) St.-Lag.
  • Selinum acutangulum Gilib.
  • Selinum angulatum Lam.
  • Selinum carvifolia-linnaei Jacq., nom. superfl.
  • Selinum membranaceum Vill.
  • Selinum pratense Röhl., nom. illeg.
  • Selinum pseudocarvifolia All.
  • Selinum seguirei Baumg.
  • Selinum silvaticum Röhl.
  • Selinum tenuifolium Salisb.
  • Seseli carvifolia L., nom. cons.

Selinum carvifolia is a flowering plant of the genus Selinum in the family Apiaceae. The specific name carvifolia signifies 'having leaves resembling those of Caraway'.[2] It is a plant of fens and damp meadows, growing in most of Europe, with the exception of much of the Mediterranean region, eastwards to Central Asia. Its common name in English is Cambridge milk parsley, because it is confined, in the UK, to the county of Cambridgeshire and closely resembles milk parsley (Peucedanum palustre), an umbellifer of another genus, but found in similar habitats. The two plants are not only similar in appearance, but also grow in similar moist habitats, although they may be told apart in the following manner: P. palustre has hollow, often purplish stems, pinnatifid leaf lobes and deflexed bracteoles; while S. carvifolia has solid, greenish stems, entire or sometimes lobed leaf-lobes and erecto-patent bracteoles. Also, when the two plants are in fruit, another difference becomes apparent: the three dorsal ridges on the fruit of S. carvifolia are winged, while those on the fruit of P. palustre are not. Yet a further difference lies in the respective leaflets of the plants : those of Peucedanum palustre are blunt and pale at the tip, while those of Selinum carvifolia are sharply pointed and of a darker green.[3] S. carvifolia used also to occur in the English counties of Nottinghamshire and Lincolnshire but is now extinct in both. Growing in only three small Cambridgeshire fens, it is one of England's rarest umbellifers.[4] It is naturalized in the United States, where it is known by the common name little-leaf angelica.[5]

  1. ^ "Selinum carvifolia (L.) L." Plants of the World Online. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Retrieved 2023-01-13.
  2. ^ Murray, Lady Charlotte (c. 1799) A Descriptive Catalogue of Hardy Plants, Indigenous Or Cultivated in the Climate of Great Britain; with Their Generic and Specific Characters, Latin and English Names, Native Country, and Time of Flowering 3rd edition 1808, volume 1, p. 227.
  3. ^ Blamey, Marjorie; Fitter, Richard; Fitter, Alastair (2013). Wild flowers of Britain and Ireland (2nd ed.). London: Bloomsbury. ISBN 978-1-4081-7950-5.
  4. ^ Umbellifers of the British Isles B.S.B.I. Handbook No.2. Tutin, T.G. Pub. Botanical Society of the British Isles, London 1980.
  5. ^ NRCS. "Selenocarpus". PLANTS Database. United States Department of Agriculture (USDA). Retrieved 9 November 2015.

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