Annual or perennial herbs with usu. compound leaves and essence of celery or carrots from crushed leaves. Small flowers in umbellate panicles. Several species, including several naturalized weeds.
Hairy Bowlesia |
Bowlesia incana |
American Wild Carrot |
Daucus pusillus |
Ephemeral herb of early spring. This species has simple leaves (not compound) with distinctive wedge-shaped lobes. Grows among shady rocks or under shade of Sonoran Desert trees. Flowers small and hard to see. Detailed Description |
Annual spring herb. Leaves are dissected into linear segments. Flowers many and small in flat-topped clusters. Seeds paired with hooked projections. Detailed Description |
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Whorled Pennywort |
Hydrocotyle verticillata |
Marsh Parsley |
Cyclospermum leptophyllum |
Aquatic herb growing in wet soil or floating in shallow water. Leaf circular in outline on tall petiole. Detailed Description |
Weed of watered gardens/turf with a taproot and leaves divided into narrow segments. Very small white flowers. Detailed Description |