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Alexanders, Smyrnium olusatrum Family: Apiaceae
Alexanders
Smyrnium olusatrum


Flowering time: March-June. Biennial. Archaeophyte

Introduced by the Romans, widespread and naturalised on coastal waste ground, roadsides and cliffs but range steadily increasing inland

A stout hairless plant, celery-scented, with yellow-green flowers in many-rayed umbels. Shiny dark green leaves, basal leaves with stalked leaflets.

Sometimes host to the rust fungus Puccinia smyrnii



Alexanders, Smyrnium olusatrum


Alexanders, Smyrnium olusatrum


Alexanders, Smyrnium olusatrum
Alexanders, Smyrnium olusatrum
Arne, Dorset. 2014

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