Petroselinum
Genus of flowering plants From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Genus of flowering plants From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Petroselinum is a genus of two parsley species of flowering plants in the family Apiaceae, native to western and southern Europe and northern Africa.[1]
Petroselinum | |
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Petroselinum segetum, France | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Plantae |
Clade: | Tracheophytes |
Clade: | Angiosperms |
Clade: | Eudicots |
Clade: | Asterids |
Order: | Apiales |
Family: | Apiaceae |
Subfamily: | Apioideae |
Tribe: | Apieae |
Genus: | Petroselinum Hill |
Species | |
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Plants of this genus are bright green, hairless, biennial and herbaceous; they are rarely annual plants. In the first year, they form a rosette of pinnate to tripinnate leaves and a tap root used as a food store over the winter. In the second year they grow a flowering stem up to 1 m tall with sparser leaves and umbels of white or pinkish to yellowish-green flowers.[2][3]
The generic name comes from rendering the Greek word πετροσέλινον petroselinon "rock-celery" into Latin,[4][5] from πέτρα petra "rock, stone"[6] and σέλινον selinon "celery".[7][1][3] Mycenaean Greek se-ri-no, in Linear B, is the earliest attested form of the word selinon.[8]
The species of this genus are:
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