Comprehensive Description
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Inglês
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fornecido por North American Flora
Pastinaca sativa L. Sp. PI. 262. 1753
Anethum Pastinaca Wibel, Prim. PI. Werth. 195. 1799. Peucedanum Pastinaca Baillon, Hist. PI. 7: 96, 188. 1879.
Plants 3-10 dm. high; leaves oblong to ovate in general outline, excluding the petioles 15-25 cm. long, 10-15 cm. broad, cordate, the leaflets oblong to ovate, 5-10 cm. long, 2.5-8 cm. broad, coarsely serrate and lobed or divided, puberulent or glabrate; petioles 1-1.5 cm. long; cauline leaves with conspicuously dilated sheaths; peduncles stout, 7-15 cm. long; rays 15-25, unequal, 2-10 cm. long; pedicels 5-10 mm. long; petals yellow; fruit 5-6 mm. long, 4-5 mm. broad.
Type locality: "In Europae australioris ruderatis et pascuis." collector unknown.
Distribution: Europe; widely naturalized in the United States and Canada; West Indies.
- citação bibliográfica
- Albert Charles Smith, Mildred Esther Mathias, Lincoln Constance, Harold William Rickett. 1944-1945. UMBELLALES and CORNALES. North American flora. vol 28B. New York Botanical Garden, New York, NY
