Apiaceae 201 



APIACE^E 

 Celery Family 



Herbs with alternate, compound or simple 

 leaves; flowers small, white, yellow or purple 

 in compound flat heads; fruit dry, usually 

 of two flattened carpels. 



Stems 1-2 feet high. 



Leaves pinnately or ternately compound, cut into 



fine divisions. 



Flowers yellow or white; not purple. Lomatium. 



Flowers purple. Leptotaenia. 



Leaves simple or 3-lobed; flowers yellow. Zizia. 



Stems 2-3 feet high; leaves ternate. Ligusticum. 



Stems 4-8 feet high, soft-hairy. 



Leaves ternately divided ; flowers white. 



Heracleum. 



Lomatium Nearly stemless, 4-24 inches 



macro- high, more or less hairy, much 



carpum 



(Nutt ) branched at the base from an 



C. and R. elongated thick root. Leaves 

 Large- pinnately compound, segments 



see e pinnately incised, on rather short 



Parsley. 



petioles, purplish at the base; 



flowers white or pinkish in a somewhat equally 

 3-io-rayed umbel; rays 1-4 inches long. 



