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Anethum graveolens L.
Family Apiaceae
Common name: Dill

Anethum graveolens L. APNI*

Description: Annual herb 40–170 cm high, glaucescent, strongly aromatic.

Leaves 3–4-pinnate, oblong to obovate in outline, 13–35 cm long, 10–12 cm wide; lobes narrow-linear, 4–20 mm long, < 0.5 mm wide, often recurved and tangled; sheath broad, loosely clasping and often recurved.

Compound umbels 7–12 cm diam.; peduncle 7–16 cm long; rays 10–45, unequal, 2.5–16 cm long; pedicels subequal, 6–20 mm long. Petals c. 0.7 mm long, yellow.

Fruit ovoid or broad-oblong, 3.5–6 mm long, 2–2.5 mm wide, the broad back 3-ribbed between winged lateral ribs.


Flowering: January

Distribution and occurrence: Mainly cultivated as a condiment; recorded also as a weed of disturbed and waste ground in Canberra district.
NSW subdivisions: *CT, *ST
AVH map***

Text by J. M. Powell, except for genera with authors listed
Taxon concept: Flora of NSW 3 (1992)


APNI* Provides a link to the Australian Plant Name Index (hosted by the Australian National Botanic Gardens) for comprehensive bibliographic data
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