Garden Parsley
Garden Parsley - Petroselinum crispum
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.
Photos of plant in habitat, plus details of flowers and leaves
Usually found as a casual garden escape fairly close to habitation.
Summer.
Biennial.
Recorded widely in England and Wales as a casual garden escape, less so in Scotland.
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)
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