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24 unusual facts about apiaceae


Aegopodium podagraria

Aegopodium podagraria L. commonly called ground elder, herb gerard, bishop's weed, goutweed, and snow-in-the-mountain, is a perennial plant in the carrot family (Apiaceae) that grows in shady places.

Aethusa cynapium

Fool's parsley, Aethusa cynapium (also known as fool's cicely or poison parsley), is an annual (rarely biennial) herb in the plant family Apiaceae, native to Europe, western Asia and northwest Africa.

Ammi visnaga

Ammi visnaga is a species of flowering plant in the carrot family known by many common names, including bisnaga, toothpickweed, and khella.

Apiaceae

The black swallowtail butterfly, Papilio polyxenes, utilizes the Apiaceae family for food and host plants during oviposition.

Apium virus Y

A survey of native and weed species in the family Apiaceae found ApVY to be widespread in Australia.

Caucalis

Caucalis daucoides is a species of flowering plant in the Apiaceae, the only member of the genus Caucalis.

Chaerophyllum bulbosum

Chaerophyllum bulbosum is a species of flowering plant in the carrot family known by several common names, including turnip-rooted chervil, tuberous-rooted chervil, bulbous chervil, and parsnip chervil.

Chervil

A member of the Apiaceae, chervil is native to the Caucasus but was spread by the Romans through most of Europe, where it is now naturalised.

Cicuta virosa

The leaves are alternate, tripinnate, only coarsely toothed, unlike the ferny, lacy leaves found in many other members of the family Apiaceae.

Cicutoxin

The water hemlock belongs to the Apiaceae family and the species within this family are divided into the Cicuta and Oenanthe genera.

Ferula tingitana

Ferula tingitana (the giant Tangier fennel) is a species of the Apiaceae genus Ferula.

It has alternate leaf arrangement and yellow, unisexual flowers which, like other Apiaceae, grow in umbels.

Galbanum

Galbanum is an aromatic gum resin, the product of certain umbelliferous Persian plant species, chiefly Ferula gummosa (synonym F. galbaniflua) and Ferula rubricaulis.

Joseph Nelson Rose

While Rose was employed by the national museum, he was an authority on several plants families, including Apiaceae (Parsley Family) and Cactaceae (Cactus Family).

Monograph

The first ever monograph of a plant taxon was Robert Morison's 1672 Plantarum Umbelliferarum Distributio Nova, a treatment of the Apiaceae.

Papilio zelicaon

Its major food plants are members of the carrot family, Apiaceae, (including fennel), and also some members of the citrus family, Rutaceae.

Plastocyanin

Algal plastocyanins, and those from vascular plants in the family Apiaceae, contain similar acidic residues but are shaped differently from those of plant plastocyanins—they lack residues 57 and 58.

Rhagonycha nigriceps

This quite common beetle is active during the daylight hours, when it can be easily found on Apiaceae or Asteraceae species.

Scandix pecten-veneris

Scandix pecten-veneris (shepherd's-needle, Venus' comb, Venus's needle) is a plant species in the parsley family.

Smyrnium olusatrum

Smyrnium olusatrum L, common name Alexanders is a cultivated flowering plant, belonging to the family Apiaceae (or Umbelliferae).

Tenthredo notha

They can be encountered from June through September feeding on small insects and on nectar and pollen of flowers (especially on Apiaceae species).

Tenthredo zonula

They can be encountered from June through August feeding on flowers (especially on Euphorbia and Apiaceae species).

Trehalase

In plant kingdom, though trehalose has been reported from several pteridophytes including Selaginella lepidophylla and Botrychium lunaria; the sugar is rare in vascular plants and reported only in ripening fruits of several members of Apiaceae and in the leaves of the desiccation-tolerant angiosperm Myrothamnus flabellifolius .

Umbelliferone

Umbelliferone occurs in many familiar plants from the Apiaceae (Umbelliferae) family such as carrot, coriander and garden angelica, as well as in plants from other families, such as the mouse-ear hawkweed (Hieracium pilosella, Asteraceae) or the bigleaf hydrangea (Hydrangea macrophylla, Hydrangeaceae, under the name hydrangine).


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Cheilosia variabilis

Adult flies were found from May to August visiting flowers of Aegopodium podagraria, Alliaria petiolata, Anthriscus sylvestris, Apiaceae, Aurinia saxatilis, Conium maculatum, Crataegus laevigata, Euphorbia cyparissias, Meum athamanticum, Potentilla reptans, Ranunculus repens, Salix spec.

City Mill River

The work involved dealing with large amounts of plant growth, particularly water pennywort, Hydrocotyle ranunculoides, a member of the apiaceae family, which were treated with herbicides to remove them.

Cteniopus sulphureus

These thermophilic beetles can mainly be encountered in sunny places on inflorescences of Apiaceae and Asteraceae species, especially Achillea species.

E. maritimum

Eryngium maritimum, the sea holly, a plant species in the family Apiaceae

Glehn

Glehnia, a monotypic genus in the carrot family Apiaceae named after Peter von Glehn

Graphosoma lineatum

These shield bugs are frequently found on the umbels of Apiaceae (Heracleum, Anthriscus, Foeniculum, etc.) and often on the flowers of the Greater Pignut, Bunium bulbocastanum.

Lomatium piperi

Lomatium piperi is a species of flowering plant in the carrot family known by the common name Indian biscuitroot (and called mámɨn in the local Sahaptin language).

Queen Anne's lace

Anthriscus sylvestris, a herbaceous biennial or short-lived perennial plant in the family Apiaceae

Rudolph Friedrich Hohenacker

In 1836 the botanical genus Hohenackeria (family Apiaceae) was named in his honor by Carl Anton von Meyer and Friedrich Ernst Ludwig von Fischer.

Tenthredo temula

They can be encountered from May through late summer feeding on small insects and on nectar and pollen of flowers from various plants (mainly Apiaceae family, as Anthriscus sylvestris, Hogweed (Heracleum sphondylium), but also on Rubus fruticosus and Crataegus monogyna.

Wild rhubarb

Heracleum mantegazzianum, a toxic plant native to central Asia, in family Apiaceae

Yareta

Yareta (Azorella compacta, also known as "Llareta" in Spanish or Azorella yareta in the past) is a tiny flowering plant in the family Apiaceae native to South America, occurring in the Puna grasslands of the Andes in Peru, Bolivia, the north of Chile and the west of Argentina at between 3,200 and 4,500 metres altitude.