Pimpinella major (L.) Hudson

Pimpinella major (L,.) Huds. Fl. Angl. 110. 1762
Pimpinella Saxifraga var. major L. Sp. PI. 264. 1753.
Pimpinella magna L. Mant. 219. 1771.
Tragoselinum majus Lam. Fl. Fr. 3: 448. 1778.
Tragoselinum magnum Moench, Meth. 99. 1794.
Carum magnum Baillon, Hist. PI. 7: 178. 1879.
Selinum pimpinelloides E. H. L. Krause in Sturm, Fl. Deuts. ed. 2. 12: 55. 1904.
Perennial, glabrous to hirtellous, 3-10 dm. high; basal leaves oblong to ovate in general outline, excluding the petioles 8-20 cm. long, 4-15 cm. broad, pinnate, the leaflets 7-13, oval to oblong-lanceolate, 2-9 cm. long, 1-4 cm. broad, the terminal usually 3-cleft, all sharply serrate to incised; petioles 1-2 dm. long; cauline leaves reduced upwards with narrow sheaths; involucre wanting; involucel wanting, or of a few deciduous bractlets; rays 8-20, subequal, 3-4 cm. long; pedicels up to 5 mm. long; marginal petals somewhat radiant, white, rose, or purple; carpophore 2-cleft to the base; fruit ovoid-oblong, 2.5-3.5 mm. long, 1.5-2 mm. broad, glabrous, the ribs filiform but evident; oil-tubes usually 3 in the intervals, 4 on the commissure; seed-face
nearly plane.
Type locality: "In Europa australiore," collector unknown. Distribution: Europe; adventive in Pennsylvania.