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Torilis arvensis |
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| Common name |
hedge parsley |
| Family |
apiaceae |
| Life cycle |
annual |
| Flowers |
white |
| Size |
12-36" |
Native to the Mediterranean region, this introduced weed is now widely spread across the US, from coast to coast below the Great Lakes. It sends up its frilly foliage quickly in early spring, and can come up so abundantly that it smothers nearby plants. In the carrot family, it produces taproots (which may smell faintly like carrots) but in my experience is easy to pull up. I must not have noticed a single plant and let it go to seed one year, for the plants to be spread densely across a four by six-foot part of a border in early April of the following year.
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April 19, 2025
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