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Garden Parsley, Petroselinum crispum, Peirsil gharraí
Photographs: Dirk Bay, Co. Cork

Garden Parsley
Petroselinum crispum
Peirsil gharraí
Family: Apiaceae

Flowering: June-August. Biennial. Introduced.

Flat-topped umbels of yellowish flowers are followed by egg-shaped, ridged fruit. Parsley-scented bright-green leaves are 3-pinnate, the leaflets toothed and often with crisped edges. Solid stems with shallow ridges. Height 30-70cm.

An occasional garden escape or relic of cultivation found on waste ground, walls and among rocks.

Garden Parsley, Petroselinum crispum, Peirsil gharraí

Garden Parsley, Petroselinum crispum, Peirsil gharraí
Garden Parsley, Petroselinum crispum, Peirsil gharraí

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