Common name: Parsnip
Pastinaca sativa L. APNI* Description: Erect, stout biennial herb to 1.8 m high, ± pubescent, with swollen taproot; stem striate, strongly angled.
Leaves pinnate; leaflets 9–23, oblong or ovate, 5–10 cm long, 2.5–8 cm wide, often deeply lobed segments with coarsely toothed margins; petiole 5–12 cm long, shorter than lamina.
Umbel 3–20 cm diam.; peduncle stout with clasping base, 7–15 cm long; rays of terminal umbel 9–20, very unequal, to 20 mm long; bracts if present pinnately lobed; pedicels 5–10 mm long. Petals c. 1 mm long, yellow.
Fruit broad-elliptic, 5–7 mm long; wing to 0.5 mm broad.
Flowering: November–April
Distribution and occurrence: Widely grown as a vegetable, naturalized in cooler districts, south from Glen Innes.
NSW subdivisions: *NC, *NT, *CT, *ST
Other Australian states: *Vic. *Tas. *S.A.
Text by J. M. Powell, except for genera with authors listed
Taxon concept:
| N.S.W. occurrences are: subsp. sativa |
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