WILD PARSLEY
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Lomatium foeniculaceum (Pennell ) Coult. & Rose
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| Konza Prairie, Riley County, Kansas |
| Perennial |
| Height: 4-15 inches |
| Family: Apiaceae - Parsley Family |
| Flowering Period: March, April |
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| Also Called: | | Carrot-leaf lomatium. | | Stems: | | Stemless. | | Leaves: | | Alternate; stalks 1 to 6 inches long, usually purplish; egg-shaped in outline, 1/2 to 8 inches long, 2-3 times pinnately compound, ultimate segments mostly linear, to 1/4 inch long, 1/20 inch wide; tips pointed; glabrous or hairy. | | Inflorescences: | | Umbels, compound, to 4 inches in diameter, 3- to 12-rayed, terminal, on stout flowering stalks 3 to 8 inches long; bracts linear; tips pointed. | | Flowers: | | Numerous, small, yellow; calyx teeth obsolete or minute; petals 5. | | Fruits: | | Broadly oval, 1/4 to 1/2 inch long, glabrous or hairy, winged, splitting into a pair of 1-seeded segments. | | Habitat: | | Dry, open, prairie hilltops and slopes, most abundant on rocky limestone or chalk soils. | | Distribution: | | East 2/3 of Kansas. | | Uses: | | The leaves are edible and taste like parsley. | | Comments: | | Wild parsley is one of the first prairie plants to bloom in the spring. It has a deep, strong taproot. |
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| Wild parsley inflorescence |  | | 128 KB | | Konza Prairie, Riley County, Kansas |
| | Wild parsley flowers |  | | 103 KB | | Konza Prairie, Riley County, Kansas |
| | Wild parsley leaf |  | | 79 KB | | PottawatomieCounty, Kansas |
| | Wild parsley fruit |  | | 53 KB | | Konza Prairie, Riley County, Kansas |
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| | Wild parsley leaf |  | | 79 KB | | PottawatomieCounty, Kansas |
| | Wild parsley |  | | 167 KB | | Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve, Chase County, Kansas |
| | Wild parsley inflorescence |  | | 87 KB | | Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve, Chase County, Kansas |
| | Wild parsley |  | | 86 KB | | Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve, Chase County, Kansas |
| | Wild parsley |  | | 146 KB | | Konza Prairie, Riley County, Kansas |
| | Wild parsley |  | | 151 KB | | Konza Prairie, Riley County, Kansas |
| | Wild parsley |  | | 131 KB | | Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve, Chase County, Kansas |
| | Wild parsley |  | | 190 KB | | Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve, Chase County, Kansas |
| | Wild parsley fruit |  | | 138 KB | | Russell County, Kansas |
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