Umbellifers

Sea-holly Common Carrot Field Eryngo Common Shepherd's-needle



Carrot Family - Apiaceae

Field Eryngo      Eryngium campestre

Native throughout most of Europe and the Mediterranean Region. Common in fields and open, grassy places.

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Basal leaves


Sea-holly      Eryngium maritimum

Found on coastal sand and shingle along low-lying coastlines.

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Common Shepherd's-needle      Scandix pecten-veneris

A common plant of arable and disturbed ground.

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Knotted Hedge-parsley      Torilis nodosa

Widespread in grassy places and on roadsides.

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Flat-fruited Orlaya      Orlaya daucoides

Native throughout the Mediterranean Region and Middle East.

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Common Carrot      Daucus carota

Widespread and common in grassy places.

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Dark central floret
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Mediterranean Hartwort      Tordylium apulum

Native in South-east Europe. Local in grassy and rocky places.

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Balkan Hartwort      Tordylium officinale

Native in South-east Europe. Local in grassy and rocky places.

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Young fruits


     Hellenocarum multiflorum

Native from Albania, through Greece to Turkey. Often found forming colonies on old walls and rock faces.

Hellenocarum multiflorum Hellenocarum multiflorum Hellenocarum multiflorum Hellenocarum multiflorum
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     Scaligeria napiformis

Native from the Balkans and Greece to Libya and the Levant.

Scaligeria napiformis Scaligeria napiformis Scaligeria napiformis
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     Scaligeria moreana

Native and endemic to a small area of the Peloponnese and Ionian Islands, Greece.

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Basal leaf