Carrot Family [Apiaceae] |
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14th July 2017, the midlands. | Photo: © Kerry Woodfield |
Grows to a height of 1m and are usually solid, but may have a narrow channel up the centre. |
7th Aug 2013, Pennington Marshes, hampshire | Photo: © Dawn Nelson |
Later in the season - most leaves having withered away, leaving just the fruits at the top. |
7th Aug 2013, Pennington Marshes, hampshire | Photo: © Dawn Nelson |
A surdy plant almost bolt upright. Gosh, this image is exceedingly long... |
7th Aug 2013, Pennington Marshes, hampshire | Photo: © Dawn Nelson |
The stems are strongly grooved or is it ribbed... |
30th July 2008, Walters Copse Marsh, IoW. | Photo: (CC by 2.0) Hilary Higgins |
The umbels are compound, flowers white to cream, perhaps with pinkish tinge. |
30th July 2008, Walters Copse Marsh, IoW. | Photo: (CC by 2.0) Hilary Higgins |
The petals can be pinkish too. The umbels have between 6 to 15 smooth rays which are 1 to 2cm long. The rays thicken after flowering. |
30th July 2008, Walters Copse Marsh, IoW. | Photo: (CC by 2.0) Hilary Higgins |
Bracts and bracteoles. These must be (?) what T.G. Tutin calls 'partial umbels' - being a small umbel forming part of a compound umbel. Or maybe not... |
30th July 2008, Walters Copse Marsh, IoW. | Photo: (CC by 2.0) Hilary Higgins |
Bracts and bracteoles. Not all umbels have bracts. |
14th July 2017, the midlands. | Photo: © Kerry Woodfield |
30th July 2008, Walters Copse Marsh, IoW. | Photo: (CC by 2.0) Hilary Higgins |
Pinkish anthers. The outermost parts of the outer flowers in an umbellet are sometimes strongly zygomorphic whilst inner flowers are almost actinomorphic (if only they open properly to see them...) |
14th July 2017, the midlands. | Photo: © Kerry Woodfield |
Cream coloured anthers. |
30th July 2008, Walters Copse Marsh, IoW. | Photo: (CC by 2.0) Hilary Higgins |
Gone to fruit. This bisexual specimen has both bracts and bracteoles. Both bracts and bracteoles are linear-lanceolate, the bracts numbering just 1 to 5, whilst the bracteoles on the umbellets number between 12 to 20. The rays of bisexual umbels thicken when the they are in fruit (compare with two slimmer outer rays which have still to thicken). |
30th July 2008, Walters Copse Marsh, IoW. | Photo: (CC by 2.0) Hilary Higgins |
Still unripe fruits. |
30th July 2008, Walters Copse Marsh, IoW. | Photo: (CC by 2.0) Hilary Higgins |
Unripe fruits from above. The 2 styles atop are about as long as the fruits. |
30th July 2008, Walters Copse Marsh, IoW. | Photo: (CC by 2.0) Hilary Higgins |
Gone to fruit, the fruits are not brown-ripe yet, but taking shape, with 5 looped ridges forming on the outside. (Some of the outermost flowers have inexplicably grown much longer and lack fruits, growing to the same height as the tops of the fruits, the sepals having 5 unequal teeth at their ends - At first your Author thought these were more lower bracts - but they emerge one step up from where the narrow bracts emerge). |
30th July 2008, Walters Copse Marsh, IoW. | Photo: (CC by 2.0) Hilary Higgins |
Fruit shape of un-ripe fruits. Ripe fruits have only a slight midriff bulge not very pronounced as here and prominent ridges on their sides. |
30th July 2008, Walters Copse Marsh, IoW. | Photo: (CC by 2.0) Hilary Higgins |
The fruits from above. |
30th July 2008, Walters Copse Marsh, IoW. | Photo: (CC by 2.0) Hilary Higgins |
The terminal umbels have male-flowered umbels with long-stalks (as here) and bisexual-flowered umbels on short stalks (shown on the photo below). |
14th July 2017, the midlands. | Photo: © Kerry Woodfield |
Whilst bisexual-flowered umbels are on short stalks. The umbels on the periphery of the plant are also male (not depicted here). Bracts absent on this umbel, but not on all. |
14th July 2017, the midlands. | Photo: © Kerry Woodfield |
The leaves from the top progressively down the stem. The upper leaves are linear, without teeth 1 to 2 pinnate without teeth but with lobes 10-30mm long. The lower leaves (the two specimens on the right) are 2-pinnate with long stalks. |
14th July 2017, the midlands. | Photo: © Kerry Woodfield |
Leaves nearer the base of the plant. The leaf lobes are about 5mm long. |
30th July 2008, Walters Copse Marsh, IoW. | Photo: (CC by 2.0) Hilary Higgins |
Basal leaf. |
14th July 2017, the midlands. | Photo: © Kerry Woodfield |
The un-bloated sheaths beneath the upper stem branches. |
14th July 2017, the midlands. | Photo: © Kerry Woodfield |
The leaves near ground-zero level. |
14th July 2017, the midlands. | Photo: © Kerry Woodfield |
The below-ground-level roots and just one of the several toxic root tubers, which are ovoidal and much smaller than the parsnip-shaped ones of Hemlock Water-Dropwort. |
14th July 2017, the midlands. | Photo: © Kerry Woodfield |
14th July 2017, the midlands. | Photo: © Kerry Woodfield |
Upper part of the stem cut in half and the two halves, upper and lower displayed. Stems can be either solid (with a pith) or less often with a narrow hollow channel in the centre. |
Not to be semantically confused with : Hemlock (Conium maculatum) [another deadly poisonous umbellifer, but one which is not aquatic and is in a differing genus] nor to Dropwort (Filipendula vulgaris) [a plant belonging to the Rose Family] No relation to : Dropwort (Filipendula vulgaris) [a plant with similar name belonging instead to the Rose Family].
Superficial resemblance to : The stems also are slightly pinched at intervals up the stem similar to those of Tubular Water-Dropwort (Oenanthe fistulosa). Uniquely identifiable characteristics Distinguishing Feature : Like all Water-dropworts it is poisonous, but less toxic than Hemlock Water-Dropwort. It is native but a slightly rare [R] and found in damp meadows and moist grassy places and often beside ponds or ditches, local in central and southern England, even in Devon, South East Yorkshire and Monmouthshire, but is rare in Ireland. |
Oenanthe | pimpinelloides | ⇐ Global Aspect ⇒ | Apiaceae |
Oenanthe (Water-Dropworts) |
Carrot Family [Apiaceae] |