Garden Parsley

Garden Parsley - Petroselinum crispum

Description

Petroselinum crispum is a low growing, bushy plant with rich green, crisped, 2 to 3 pinnate, aromatic leaves, and small yellow-green flowers which appear in umbels in the second year.

Identification difficulty
Recording advice

Photos of plant in habitat, plus details of flowers and leaves

Habitat

Usually found as a casual garden escape fairly close to habitation.

When to see it

Summer.

Life History

Biennial.

UK Status

Recorded widely in England and Wales as a casual garden escape, less so in Scotland.

VC55 Status

Occasional casual in Leicestershire and Rutland. 

In the current Checklist (Jeeves, 2011) it is listed as Alien (archaeophyte); rare

It was on the 2011 VC55 Rare Plant Register (Jeeves, 2011) but because of its status as 'casual' it does not meet the criteria for the current RPR (Hall and Woodward, 2022)

Leicestershire & Rutland Map

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Yellow squares = NBN records (all known data)
Coloured circles = NatureSpot records: 2025+ | 2020-2024 | pre-2020

UK Map

Additional images

No additional images available for this species.

All NatureSpot records