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Anthriscus sylvestris

(Wild Chervil Anthriscus Sylvestris)

Interesting Facts

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Common Names

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Common Names in English:

Bur Chervil, Cow Parsley, Cow-Parsley, Keck, Wild Chervil, Wild Chervil Anthriscus Sylvestris

Common Names in Japanese:

Shaku

Common Names in Portuguese:

Cerefólio-Do-Campo, Cerefolho-Do-Campo

Common Names in Russian:

купырь лесной, Kupyr' Lesnoj

Common Names in Swedish:

Hundfloka

Description

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Family Apiaceae

Herbs, annual or perennial , rarely woody at base . Caulescent or acaulescent , stem hollow or solid. Leaves alternate, rarely opposite or basal; petiole usually sheathing at base; stipules absent (except in subfam. Hydrocotyloideae) ; leaf blade compound or sometimes simple , usually much incised or divided , pinnatifid to pinnatisect , or ternate-pinnately decompound . Flowers epigynous , small, bisexual or staminate (unisexual male), regular, in simple or compound umbels; umbellules few to many-flowered; rays often subtended by bracts forming a involucre; umbellules (sometimes called umbellets ) usually subtended by bracteoles forming an involucel . Pedicels long, short or obsolete (then forming a capitate umbellule) . Calyx tube wholly adnate to the ovary; calyx teeth (sometimes called sepals) small or obsolete, forming a ring around the top of the ovary. Ovary inferior, 2-celled, with one anatropous ovule in each locule. Styles 2, usually swollen at the base forming a stylopodium which often secretes nectar. Fruit dry, of two mericarps united by their faces (commissure ), and usually attached to a central axis (carpophore), from which the mericarps separate at maturity; mericarps are variously flattened dorsally , laterally or terete ; each mericarp has 5 primary ribs , one down the back (dorsal rib), two on the edges near the commissure (lateral ribs ), and two between the dorsal and lateral ribs (intermediate ribs), occasionally with four secondary ribs alternating with the primary , the ribs filiform to broadly winged , thin or corky; vittae (oil-tubes) usually present in the furrow (intervals between the ribs sometimes called the valleculae) and on the commissure face, rarely also in the pericarp, sometimes obscure . Each mericarp 1-seeded, splitting apart at maturity. Seed face (commissural albumen) plane , concave to sulcate .

Between 250 and 440( 455) genera and 3300 3700 species: widely distributed in the temperate zone of both hemispheres, mainly in Eurasia and especially in C Asia; 100 genera (ten endemic) and 614 species (340 endemic) in China.[1]

Genus Anthriscus

Herbs, biennial or perennial . Taproot slender or thickened. Stem erect , branching and fistulose. Leaf blade 2 3-ternate-pinnate or pinnately decompound ; ultimate segments dentate or pinnatifid . Umbels loosely compound , terminal and lateral ; bracts absent; rays few, spreading ; bracteoles several, margin ciliate , reflexed ; pedicels spreading. Flowers polygamous. Calyx teeth obsolete . Petals white or yellowish green, oblong or cuneate with a narrow inflexed apex; outer occasionally enlarged (radiant) . Stylopodium conic; styles short. Fruit long-ovoid to linear , apex attenuate into a beak , flattened laterally and often constricted at the commissure , smooth or bristly ; ribs obsolete; vittae obscure to obsolete. Seed subterete in cross section , face deeply sulcate .

About 15 species: temperate Asia, Europe; one European species introduced in North America; one species in China.[2]

Physical Description

Species Anthriscus sylvestris

Plants 0.6-1.5 m high. Stem stout, glabrous or lower parts finely pubescent . Basal leaves long-petiolate; petioles 10-30 cm, sheaths ca. 4 × 1 cm; blade ovate in outline, 10-30 cm; primary pinnae long-petiolulate, ovate to elliptic-ovate, 4-12 × 2-8 cm; ultimate segments ovate or elliptic-ovate, 1-3 × 0.5-1.5 cm, serrate or toothed , abaxially sparsely pubescent. Upper cauline leaves subsessile . Umbels 2.5-8 cm wide; rays 4-15, unequal; bracteoles 5-8, ovate to lanceolate, acuminate, shorter than pedicels, pedicel apex usually surrounded by white bristles in fruit. Styles ca. 2 × as long as stylopodium . Fruit 5-10 × 1-1.5 mm. Fl. and fr. Apr-May. [source]

Habit: Forb/herb

Flowers: Bloom Period: March, April, May. • Flower Color: near white, white

Size/Age/Growth

Size: 24-36" tall.

Habitat

Forests , valley sides, grassy places on mountain slopes ; near sea level to 4500 m. [3].

Typically found at an altitude of 0 to 1,657 meters (0 to 5,436 feet).[4]

Biology

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Reproduction

Duration: Annual , Biennial

Growth

Culture: Space 12-15" apart.

Soil: Minimum pH: 5.1 • Maximum pH: 8.5

Sunlight: Sun Exposure: Full Sun .

Temperature: Cold Hardiness: 7a, 7b, 8a, 8b, 9a, 9b, 10a, 10b. (map)

Taxonomy

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Unambiguous Synonyms

  1. Chaerophyllum sylvestre L.

Notes

Name Status: Accepted Name . Latest taxonomic scrutiny: 15-Mar-2000

Name verified on

Place of publication : Gen. pl. umbell. 40. 1814

Name verified on 27-Apr-1992 by ARS Systematic Botanists. Last updated: 30-May-1997

Similar Species

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Members of the genus Anthriscus

ZipcodeZoo has pages for 103 species, subspecies, varieties, forms, and cultivars in this genus. Here are just 100 of them:

A. abortiva · A. aemula · A. africana · A. algrimus · A. algrinus · A. alpestris · A. alpina · A. alpinus · A. anatolica · A. anthriscus · A. arvensis · A. boissieui · A. candollei · A. capensis · A. caucalis (Burr Chervil) · A. caucalis var. gymnocarpa · A. caulcalis · A. cerefolium (Brussels Winter Chervil) · A. cerefolium (L.) Hoffm. var. crispus · A. cerefolium 'D'Hiver de Bruxelles' (Garden Chervil) · A. cerefolium (L.) Hoffm. var. longirostris (Bertol.) Cannon · A. cerefolium trichospermum · A. cerefolium var. cerefolium · A. cerefolium 'Vertissimo' (Chervil) · A. cereifolium · A. chaerophyllea · A. chaerophyllus · A. cicutaria · A. dissectus · A. dubia · A. dupontii · A. elatior · A. fumarioides · A. glabra · A. glacialis · A. gracilis · A. graui · A. heterosantha · A. hispanicus · A. humilis · A. keniensis · A. kotschyi · A. laevigata · A. lamprocarpa · A. lamprocarpus · A. lancisecta · A. leiocarpa · A. longirostris · A. macrocarpa · A. mollis · A. neglectus · A. nemorosa · A. nitens · A. nitida · A. nitidus · A. nodiflora · A. nodosa · A. oliveri · A. prescottii · A. procera · A. rivularis · A. rupicola · A. ruprechtii · A. sativa · A. scabra · A. scandicina · A. scandicinus · A. scandix · A. schmalhausenii · A. sicula · A. silvestris · A. sosnovskyi · A. sosnowsky · A. stenophyllus · A. stocksiana · A. sylvestre · A. sylvestris (Wild Chervil Anthriscus Sylvestris) · A. sylvestris alpina · A. sylvestris 'Broadleas Blush' · A. sylvestris fumarioides · A. sylvestris 'Hullavington' · A. sylvestris 'Kabir' · A. sylvestris 'Moonlit Night' · A. sylvestris 'Ravenswing' (Purple-Leaved Cow Parsley) · A. sylvestris 'Rosea' · A. sylvestris stenophylla · A. sylvestris subsp. fumarioides · A. sylvestris subsp. nemorosa · A. sylvestris sylvestris (Wild Chervil) · A. sylvestris (L.) Hoffm. ssp. tenuifolius var. alpinum · A. syvestris · A. taurica · A. tenerrima · A. tererrima · A. torquata · A. trichosperma · A. trichospermus · A. ursidus · A. vandasii · A. velutinus

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Data Sources

Accessed through GBIF Data Portal November 17, 2007:

Identifiers

Footnotes

  1. Menglan She, Fading Pu, Zehui Pan, Mark Watson, John F. M. Cannon, Ingrid Holmes-Smith, Eugene V. Kljuykov, Loy R. Phillippe & Michael G. Pimenov "Apiaceae". in Flora of China Vol. 14 Page 1. Published by Science Press (Beijing) and Missouri Botanical Garden Press. Online at EFloras.org. [back]
  2. She Menglan (Sheh Meng-lan), John F. M. Cannon, Mark F. Watson "Anthriscus". in Flora of China Vol. 14 Page 26. Published by Science Press (Beijing) and Missouri Botanical Garden Press. Online at EFloras.org. [back]
  3. "Anthriscus sylvestris". in Flora of China Vol. 14 Page 26. Missouri Botanical Garden Press. Online at EFloras.org. [back]
  4. Mean = 172.280 meters (565.223 feet), Standard Deviation = 218.860 based on 1,338 observations. Altitude information for each observation from British Oceanographic Data Centre. [back]
Last Revised: 7/1/2009