Apiaceae Charts
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Apiaceae Comparison Charts Comparison Chart 1: Pastinaca, Pimpinella, Sium, and Heracleum sphondylium ......................................................................... 2 Comparison Chart 2: Aegopodium, Ligusticum, and Osmorhiza spp. ............................................................................................ 3 Comparison Chart 3: Angelica spp. and Ligusticum ...................................................................................................................... 4 Comparison Chart 4: Heracleum spp. ............................................................................................................................................ 6 Comparison Chart 5: Carum, Cicuta, and Daucus ........................................................................................................................... 7 Comparison Chart 6: Conioselinum, Anthriscus, and Myrrhis ...................................................................................................... 8 ~ 2 ~ Apiaceae Comparison Chart 1 (of 6): Species with Pinnately Compound Leaves Species: Pastinaca Sium Heracleum Pimpinella sativa suave sphondylium saxifraga wild parsnip water parsnip common hogweed burnet saxifrage 4–20 dm tall, biennial; 3–20 dm tall, perennial; 5–15 dm tall, perennial; 3–9 dm tall, perennial; Plants glabrous to stiffly hairy glabrous stem ridged coarsely hairy glabrous to finely hairy pinnate, to 45 cm long × emergent leaves pinnate, pinnate-pinnatifid, to 50 cm mainly basal, pinnate, Leaves 15 cm wide; leaflets 5–15, leaflets 5–17 linear-lanceolate, long, leaflets 3–7, coarsely leaflets 9–17, ovate to oblong-lanceolate, 5–10 3–15 cm long × 6–13 mm pinnatifid, oblanceolate, 5– obovate, 1.5–2.5 cm long cm long; margins serrate wide; margins finely serrate; 10 cm long, margins coarsely and wide; apex rounded, to incised, terminal submersed leaves bipinnate, incised and serrate, leaflets margins serrate; cauline leaflet 3-lobed leaflets finely dissected; often all pinnatifid, with broad, leaves deeply pinnate- emergent in low water levels coarse lobes pinnatifid, lobes narrow flat-topped; 7–20 cm domed; 4–12.5 cm across, flat-topped; to 20 cm across, flat-topped, 5–8 cm across, Compound across, with 5–25 with 10–25 umbellets, each with 15–45 umbellets, each with 7–35 umbellets, each Umbels umbellets, each with with ± 10–35 flowers with ± 15–50 flowers with ± 10–30 flowers ± 10–32 flowers Involucre & usually none involucre with 6–10 bracts; involucre and involucels usually none Involucel involucels bracts smaller bracts present, narrow petals yellow, not petals white, notched, tips petals white to pink-tinged, petals white, notched, tips Flowers notched, tips strongly incurved; stylopodium white; tips incurved; stylopodium incurved; stylopodium white, incurved; stylopodium styles short, ascending white; styles ascending styles ascending greenish-yellow; styles divergent oval to obovate, 4–8 mm ovoid, 2.5–3 mm long; oval, 7–8 mm long; flat, ellipsoid-ovoid, 2–2.5 mm Fruit long; flat, glabrous, with compressed, glabrous, with 5 glabrous, with 4 oil tubes long; glabrous, with faint (schizocarp) 4 oil tubes ± to the base prominent ribs, edges winged > 1/2 the length of the fruit ribs ~ 3 ~ Apiaceae Comparison Chart 2 (of 6): Species with Bipinnately and Ternately Compound Leaves Species: Aegopodium Ligusticum Osmorhiza Osmorhiza podagraria scoticum berteroi depauperata goutweed beach lovage mountain sweet cicely blunt sweet cicely Plants 4–9 dm tall, perennial; 3–6 dm tall, perennial; 4–10 dm tall, perennial; 1.5–7 dm tall, perennial; glabrous, stems green glabrous, stems reddish- stems green, with stiff hairs stems green, finely purple, at least basally (hirsute); leaves pubescent pubescent; leaves pubescent Leaves bipinnate and ternate, bipinnate and ternate, bipinnate and ternate, each bipinnate and ternate, each each of the 3 sections 5–20 cm long; leaflets ovate, of the 3 sections with 3 of the 3 sections with 3 with 3–5 oblong to ovate fleshy, often shiny, 2.5–5 cm ovate, serrate leaflets, each lanceolate to ovate, serrate leaflets (4–9 on lower long; leaf sheaths close to 2–9 cm long × 1–5.5 cm leaflets, each 1.5–6 cm long leaves), 3–8 cm long; the stem, slightly inflated wide; sheaths close to the × 1–4 cm wide; sheaths close sheaths slightly inflated stem to the stem Compound flat-topped, 6–12 cm flat-topped; 4–6 cm across, few-rayed, with ascending few-rayed, with divergent Umbels wide; umbellets 10–25, umbellets 8–20; with about to spreading rays, umbellets rays; umbellets 3–5 each with about 20–30 flowers 15–30 flowers 3–7, each with 2–3 flowers with 2–3 flowers Involucre/ involucre and involucels Involucre 0–few bracts; involucre and involucels involucre and involucels Involucel lacking involucel 1–few bractlets lacking lacking Flowers petals usually white, petals white to pinkish, petals greenish-white, petals greenish-white, notched, tip incurved; tips incurved; stylopodium tips incurved; stylopodium tips incurved; stylopodium stylopodium conical, conical, white, styles longer than wide, 2 mm wider than long, 0.8–1.2 prominent, white; styles ascending, shorter than the long, pale green; mm long, pale green; reflexed, 1.5 mm long stylopodium styles ±1 mm long styles <0.5 mm long Fruit ellipsoid, wider than ellipsoid, wider than thick, narrow oblanceolate, 11–18 narrow oblanceolate, 8–12 (schizocarp) thick, 3–4 mm long, 8–10 mm long, light to mm long, beak conical; mm long, blunt at the apex, glabrous, ribs medium brown, glabrous, blackish, with appressed blackish, with stiff, inconspicuous ribs prominent bristles appressed bristles ~ 4 ~ Apiaceae Comparison Chart 3 (of 6): Angelica and Ligusticum Species: Angelica Angelica Angelica Ligusticum atropurpurea sylvestris lucida scoticum purplestem angelica woodland angelica seabeach angelica beach lovage Stem 1–3 m tall, perennial, stout 1.5–2 m tall, perennial; 0.3–1.5 m tall, coastal 3–6 dm tall, perennial; stems purple, or green stems usually purple, perennial, stems green or stems reddish-purple, at tinged with purple, glabrous below the umbels greenish-purple, glabrous least basally; glabrous glabrous below the umbels below the umbels throughout Leaves 2× to 3× ternately divided; bipinnate to tripinnate, 2× to 3× ternately divided, bipinnate and ternate, lower leaves 1.5–6 dm lower leaves to 6 dm long; 1–3 dm long; leaflets ovate to 0.5–2 dm long; leaflets long; leaflets lanceolate to leaflets lanceolate to ovate, obovate, 3–8 cm long, ovate, fleshy, often shiny, ovate, 4–15 cm long; 2–8 cm long, sharply serrate, irregularly serrate 2.5–5 cm long margins sharply serrate lower surface pubescent Petiolar blade-bearing sheaths blade-bearing sheaths blade-bearing sheath broad, blade-bearing sheaths Sheaths highly inflated, inflated, longer than wide inflated, the summit with close to the stem, only 2–5 cm wide rounded lobes slightly inflated Compound spherical or nearly so, domed to hemispherical, domed, to 1.5 dm across, flat-topped; 4–6 cm across, Umbels 1–3 dm across; 0.6–2 dm across; peduncle dense; peduncle and rays peduncles and rays rays finely pubescent, and rays finely pubescent, finely pubescent to ± glabrous; umbellets 8–20 umbellets 20–46 umbellets 20–50 scabrous, umbellets 20–50 Involucre/ involucre absent; involucel involucre bracts 0 or 1–3, involucre bracts 0 or few, involucre with 0 or few Involucels bractlets narrow, deciduous; involucels deciduous; involucel bractlets bracts, involucels bractlets lanceolate, shorter than bractlets numerous, linear, numerous, linear, longer than 1 to few, usually shorter the pedicels about equal to the pedicels the pedicels than the pedicels ~ 5 ~ Flowers petals greenish-yellow, petals white, pinkish, or petals greenish-white to petals white to pinkish, tips incurved; stylopodium lavender, tips incurved; purplish, tips incurved; tips incurved; stylopodium green; styles spreading to stylopodium white to pink; stylopodium greenish-yellow; whitish, styles short, divergent in fruit styles recurved in fruit styles recurved in fruit ascending in fruit Fruit oblong, wider than thick, oblong, wider than thick, ellipsoid, somewhat wider ellipsoid, about as wide as (Schizocarp) 5–10.5 mm long; 4–6 mm long; than thick, 4–7 mm long; thick, 8–10 mm long, mericarps 3-ribbed, mericarps 3-ribbed, mericarps with 3 thick ribs, mericarps with 5 equally 2-winged on the edges 2-winged on the edges wings absent prominent ribs ~ 6 ~ Apiaceae Comparison Chart 4 (of 6): Heracleum Species: Heracleum maximum Heracleum mantegazzianum Heracleum sphondylium cow parsnip giant hogweed common hogweed Stem Warning: Sap from Heracleum plants will produce a severe rash on unprotected moist skin when exposed to sunlight; gloves and protective clothing should be used when handling these plants. perennial; 1–3 m tall, vertically biennial or short-lived, monocarpic perennial; 5–15 dm tall, vertically ridged, green to purplish, but perennial; 1–4+ m tall, not vertically ridged, ridged, green, stems covered never blotchy; stems covered with raised purple blotches and a stiff bristle with stiff, bristly hairs soft, woolly hairs emerging from the centre of each blotch Leaves ternate, 2–5 dm long and wide, ternate, 10-25 dm long × 17 dm wide, each pinnate-pinnatifid, to 5 dm long; each of the 3 leaflets, 1-3 dm long, of the 3 coarsely incised leaflets, 1–5 dm each of the 3–7 leaflets is is palmately divided into 3–5 lobes, long, with 3–5 broadly pinnatifid lobes, 0.5–1 dm long, with 3–9 deeply margins coarsely-serrate; petiolar margins