Log In New Account Sitemap
  • Home
  • Search
    • Search Collections
    • Map Search
  • Images
    • Image Browser
    • Search Images
  • Mid-Atlantic Floras
    • Delaware
    • Maryland
    • New Jersey
    • New York
    • Pennsylvania
  • NYC EcoFlora
    • Vascular Checklist
    • Identification Key
    • Central Park
    • Additional Local Lists
    • More Details About Project
  • Interactive Tools
    • Dynamic Checklist
    • Dynamic Key
  • Crowdsource Data Entry
  • Other SEINet Portals
    • Arizona - New Mexico Chapter
    • Consortium of Midwest Herbaria
    • Intermountain Region Herbaria Network (IRHN)
    • Mid-Atlantic Herbaria
    • North American Network of Small Herbaria
    • Northern Great Plains Herbaria
    • Madrean Archipelago Biodiversity Assessment (MABA) - Flora
    • Red de Herbarios del Noroeste de México (northern Mexico)
    • SERNEC - Southeastern USA
Apiaceae
Apiaceae image
Sue Carnahan
  • SW Field Guide
  • Resources
Desert Research Learning Center, Botany Program
Mostly aromatic herbs with hollow stems in the internodal regions. Leaves usually pinnate, sometimes palmate, alternate and spiral, with sheathing petioles. Inflorescence a simple or compound umbel, often with subtending involucral bracts. Flowers small, perfect, radial, calyx usually 5 reduced, distinct sepals, corolla of 5 distinct petals, 5 stamens emerging from a stylopodium, 2 connate carpels, the ovaries inferior with axile placentation. Fruits a schizocarp of mericarps, supported by carpophores upon splitting.
Species within checklist: NYC EcoFlora Vascular Plant Checklist - Herbarium Specimen and Observation Data
Aegopodium podagraria
Image of Aegopodium podagraria
Aethusa cynapium
Image of Aethusa cynapium
Anethum graveolens
Image of Anethum graveolens
Angelica atropurpurea
Image of Angelica atropurpurea
Angelica lucida
Image of Angelica lucida
Angelica venenosa
Image of Angelica venenosa
Anthriscus sylvestris
Image of Anthriscus sylvestris
Carum carvi
Image of Carum carvi
Conioselinum chinense
Image of Conioselinum chinense
Conium maculatum
Image of Conium maculatum
Coriandrum sativum
Image of Coriandrum sativum
Cryptotaenia canadensis
Image of Cryptotaenia canadensis
Daucus carota
Image of Daucus carota
Heracleum maximum
Image of Heracleum maximum
Osmorhiza claytonii
Image of Osmorhiza claytonii
Osmorhiza longistylis
Image of Osmorhiza longistylis
Oxypolis rigidior
Image of Oxypolis rigidior
Pastinaca sativa
Image of Pastinaca sativa
Ptilimnium capillaceum
Image of Ptilimnium capillaceum
Sanicula marilandica
Image of Sanicula marilandica
Sanicula odorata
Image of Sanicula odorata
Sium suave
Image of Sium suave
Taenidia integerrima
Image of Taenidia integerrima
Zizia aptera
Image of Zizia aptera
Zizia aurea
Image of Zizia aurea
The National Science Foundation
This project made possible by National Science Foundation Awards 1601697, 1600981, 1601393, 1600976, 1601429, 1601101, 1601503
Powered by Symbiota