Umbellifers

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.


Habit	Flowers	Flowers	Basal leaves

Sea-holly Eryngium maritimum

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


Habit	Habit	Flowers	Leaves

Fool's Water-cress Helosciadium nodiflorum

Native. throughout much of Europe and the Mediterranean Region eastwards to North-east Africa and Pakistan. Petals white but often with a greenish or yellowish tinge. Leaves once-pinnate, finely toothed at the margins, hairless; bracts usually absent but sometimes 1-2 and bracteoles usually absent but sometimes up to seven, typically relatively broad and with paler margins; fruits rounded, laterally compressed and strongly ribbed. Flower clusters usually appear on short branches along the stems and opposite the leaves. A very variable plant that may be small and creeping in seasonally dry, open sites, or upright in wetter sites and when growing amongst other, tall plants.


Habit	Flowers	Leaf

Bracts	Bracteoles	Fruits

Common Shepherd's-needle Scandix pecten-veneris

A common plant of arable and disturbed ground.


Habit	Flowers	Flowers

Leaf	Leaf	Fruits

Knotted Hedge-parsley Torilis nodosa

Widespread in grassy places and on roadsides.


Habit	Habit	Flowers	Lower leaves

Lower leaf	Upper leaf	Fruits	Fruits

Flat-fruited Orlaya Orlaya daucoides

Native throughout the Mediterranean Region and Middle East.


Habit	Flowers	Flower bract	Flower bract and bracteole

Leaf	Fruits

Common Carrot Daucus carota

Widespread and common in grassy places.


Habit	Flowers	Dark central floret	Bracts

Leaf	Stem	Fruiting head	Fruits

Mediterranean Hartwort Tordylium apulum

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


Flowerhead	Flowerhead	Flowers	Flower bracts

Leaf	Leaf	Fruits	Fruits

Balkan Hartwort Tordylium officinale

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


Flowerhead	Flowers	Flower bracts	Flower bracts

Leaf	Leaf	Young fruits

Hellenocarum multiflorum

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


Habit	Habit	Flowers	Bracts

Leaves	Leaf detail	Leaf detail	Fruits

Scaligeria napiformis

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


Flowers	Bracts	Bracteoles

Leaves	Leaf	Leaf

Scaligeria moreana

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


Habit	Basal leaf	Basal leaf