parsley family
the plant family Umbelliferae (or Apiaceae), characterized by herbaceous plants having alternate, usually compound leaves, hollow stems, numerous small flowers borne in umbels, and dry, seedlike, often aromatic fruit, and including anise, caraway, carrot, celery, dill, parsley, parsnip, and Queen Anne's lace, as well as poisonous plants such as cowbane and water hemlock.
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Laserpitium, las-er-pish′i-um, n. a genus of perennial herbs of the parsley family—Las′erwort or herb frankincense.
It is an aromatic garden herb, of an order of plants of the cohort umbelliferae, known popularly as the parsley family.
Candy-Making Revolutionized | Mary Elizabeth HallFlowers of many of the parsley family, for example wild carrot, wild parsnip and caraway, are quite odd.
Through a Microscope | Samuel WellsWater-Eryngo belongs to the parsley family (Apiaceae) and is native in this country.
Ginseng and Other Medicinal Plants | A. R. (Arthur Robert) Harding
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