Irish wildflowers BSBI map

Wild Celery, Apium graveolens, Smaileog
Photographs: Askeaton, Co. Limerick

Wild Celery
Apium graveolens
Smaileog
Family: Apiaceae

Flowering June - August. Biennial. Native.

Short-stalked, terminal umbels of whitish flowers, bracts and bracteoles absent. Ridged, oval fruit. Hollow, grooved stems with once-pinnate, shiny, dark-green basal leaves, the stalks sheathing stems. Narrow, trifoliate upper leaves. Hairless, erect plant, height 30-60cm.

Usually coastal on the upper reaches of salt-marshes and on sea walls but also found beside ditches, ponds and rivers

Wild Celery, Apium graveolens, Smaileog

Wild Celery, Apium graveolens, Smaileog

Wild Celery, Apium graveolens, Smaileog
Wild Celery, Apium graveolens, Smaileog

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