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Annesorhiza

Annesorhiza also known as carrot or celery family, are flowering plants with hollow stems and divided leaves. They produce umbrella-like clusters of flowers that attract beneficial insects such as hoverflies and parasitic wasps, making them great for pest control in gardens. Some common umbellifers include parsley, dill, and fennel, all of which have culinary and medicinal uses.

Crithmum

Crithmum is a monospecific genus of flowering plant in the carrot family Apiaceae, with the sole species. It is found on southern and western coasts of Britain and Ireland, on mediterranean and western coasts of Europe including the Canary Islands, North Africa and the Black Sea. Crithmum has fleshy, divided aromatic leaves.

Echinophora

Echinophora also known as carrot or celery family, are flowering plants with hollow stems and divided leaves. They produce umbrella-like clusters of flowers that attract beneficial insects such as hoverflies and parasitic wasps, making them great for pest control in gardens. Some common umbellifers include parsley, dill, and fennel, all of which have culinary and medicinal uses.

Angelica

Angelica are a genus of tall biennial and perennial herbs with bunches of starry white or greenish flowers. The plants of this genus are found across the Northern Hemisphere and provide a host of uses for local peoples. In Lapland, the plants are used to make traditional instruments, whereas in North America, they were often used for ritual purposes.

Parsley

Parsley also known as carrot or celery family, are flowering plants with hollow stems and divided leaves. They produce umbrella-like clusters of flowers that attract beneficial insects such as hoverflies and parasitic wasps, making them great for pest control in gardens. Some common umbellifers include parsley, dill, and fennel, all of which have culinary and medicinal uses.

Chamarea

Chamarea also known as carrot or celery family, are flowering plants with hollow stems and divided leaves. They produce umbrella-like clusters of flowers that attract beneficial insects such as hoverflies and parasitic wasps, making them great for pest control in gardens. Some common umbellifers include parsley, dill, and fennel, all of which have culinary and medicinal uses.

Water parsnips

Water parsnips are made up of several aquatic or semi-aquatic perennials related to carrots. Some species are available for sale to grow in water or rain gardens. Though they themselves are harmless, they strongly resemble Water Hemlock, which is toxic, and grow in the same environment--leading to the possibility of a potentially deadly mix-up.

Platysace

Platysace also known as carrot or celery family, are flowering plants with hollow stems and divided leaves. They produce umbrella-like clusters of flowers that attract beneficial insects such as hoverflies and parasitic wasps, making them great for pest control in gardens. Some common umbellifers include parsley, dill, and fennel, all of which have culinary and medicinal uses.

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Ridolfia also known as carrot or celery family, are flowering plants with hollow stems and divided leaves. They produce umbrella-like clusters of flowers that attract beneficial insects such as hoverflies and parasitic wasps, making them great for pest control in gardens. Some common umbellifers include parsley, dill, and fennel, all of which have culinary and medicinal uses.

cnidium

Cnidium is a genus of flowering plant in the Apiaceae, native to Eurasia, Africa and North America. It has 4 or 5 species.

Azorella

Azorella also known as carrot or celery family, are flowering plants with hollow stems and divided leaves. They produce umbrella-like clusters of flowers that attract beneficial insects such as hoverflies and parasitic wasps, making them great for pest control in gardens. Some common umbellifers include parsley, dill, and fennel, all of which have culinary and medicinal uses.

Ligusticopsis

Ligusticopsis also known as carrot or celery family, are flowering plants with hollow stems and divided leaves. They produce umbrella-like clusters of flowers that attract beneficial insects such as hoverflies and parasitic wasps, making them great for pest control in gardens. Some common umbellifers include parsley, dill, and fennel, all of which have culinary and medicinal uses.

Chervil

Chervil

Chervil is a genus of flowering plant in the Apiaceae. Chervil has 35 species. Chervil is native to Europe, Asia, North America, and northern Africa.

Conopodium

Conopodium also known as carrot or celery family, are flowering plants with hollow stems and divided leaves. They produce umbrella-like clusters of flowers that attract beneficial insects such as hoverflies and parasitic wasps, making them great for pest control in gardens. Some common umbellifers include parsley, dill, and fennel, all of which have culinary and medicinal uses.

Poison hemlocks

Poison hemlocks

Poison hemlocks is a small genus of flowering plants, all of which are highly toxic to humans. The plants are all similar in appearance, growing from 1 meter to 3 meters tall with sprays of white, green or purple flowers growing above variegated leaves that spread out from a thick stem.

Beach Silvertop

Beach Silvertop

Beach Silvertop has one species. It is a long-taprooted plant forming a basal patch of leaves, with each leaf made up of several rounded, lobular segments. It reaches a maximum height exceeding 50 cm and its erect stem is topped with an umbel of carrotlike white flowers. It is native to eastern Asia and western North America.

Dickinsia

Dickinsia also known as carrot or celery family, are flowering plants with hollow stems and divided leaves. They produce umbrella-like clusters of flowers that attract beneficial insects such as hoverflies and parasitic wasps, making them great for pest control in gardens. Some common umbellifers include parsley, dill, and fennel, all of which have culinary and medicinal uses.

Ammi

Ammi is a genus of about six species of summer-flowering plants in the family Apiaceae. They are native to southern Europe, northern Africa and Southwest Asia. They have fern-like leaves and white or cream coloured lace-like flowers borne in branched, rounded umbels.

Sanicle

Sanicle

This genus has about 40 species worldwide, with 22 in North America.

Scandix

Scandix has a broad introduced range and likes to invade crop fields and disturbed soil, making it an invasive weed in some regions. However, some species are now considered critically endangered due to both habitat loss and changes in farming methods. Ironically, the two groups often overlap, sometimes making the same plant a dying breed in one region and a total nuisance in another.

Water hemlocks

Water hemlocks

The water hemlocks are a genus of poisonous hemlock. It is considered extremely poisonous throughout North America and should not be eaten by humans or cattle. It is often confused with wild parsnips. The water hemlocks can be found in moist soils in areas such as streams, marshes, and banks.

Biscuitroots

Biscuitroots

Biscuitroots are a genus of perennial herbs that are native to grasslands and glades of North America and Canada. Select species have been consumed by northwestern Native Americans as a staple in their diet. Their Latin name, Lomatium, means 'little border' in Greek and refers to its winged fruit.

Athamanta

Athamanta also known as carrot or celery family, are flowering plants with hollow stems and divided leaves. They produce umbrella-like clusters of flowers that attract beneficial insects such as hoverflies and parasitic wasps, making them great for pest control in gardens. Some common umbellifers include parsley, dill, and fennel, all of which have culinary and medicinal uses.

Sweet cicelies

Sweet cicelies

Sweet cicelies are a genus of perennial herbs with fruits that produce barbs in order to attach to clothes or fur and spread. Ranging across North America, Native Americans used the roots of sweet cicelies plants for various traditional purposes. The roots are known to produce a strong licorice odor when cut or damaged.

Imperatoria

Imperatoria also known as carrot or celery family, are flowering plants with hollow stems and divided leaves. They produce umbrella-like clusters of flowers that attract beneficial insects such as hoverflies and parasitic wasps, making them great for pest control in gardens. Some common umbellifers include parsley, dill, and fennel, all of which have culinary and medicinal uses.

Laserpitium

Laserpitium also known as carrot or celery family, are flowering plants with hollow stems and divided leaves. They produce umbrella-like clusters of flowers that attract beneficial insects such as hoverflies and parasitic wasps, making them great for pest control in gardens. Some common umbellifers include parsley, dill, and fennel, all of which have culinary and medicinal uses.

Thorow wax

Thorow wax

Thorow wax vary wildly, growing in shrub or herbaceous forms and maxing out anywhere between 3 cm and 3 m in height. They are easy to grow and those that flower are popular pollinators. Those blossoms consist of a compound of small flowers adorned with small leaf-like structures that can be large in some species. The flowers in this genus are usually yellow or yellow-green, and they will usually be covered in insects.

Daucus

Everyone is familiar with the daucus genus, the genus of one of the world’s most common root vegetable crops. The famous orange vegetable that people like to cook with is in fact the edible species Daucus carota. Other members of the daucus genus, like the wild carrot, are also edible, but those species that have a woody texture are not eaten by humans.

Arctopus

Arctopus is a genus of flowering plant in the Apiaceae, with 3 species. It is endemic to southern Africa. They are atypical members of the Apiaceae with the leaves growing flat on the ground and are dioecious, having separate male and female plants.

Eleutherospermum

Eleutherospermum also known as carrot or celery family, are flowering plants with hollow stems and divided leaves. They produce umbrella-like clusters of flowers that attract beneficial insects such as hoverflies and parasitic wasps, making them great for pest control in gardens. Some common umbellifers include parsley, dill, and fennel, all of which have culinary and medicinal uses.

Parsnips

Although the part of parsnips (Pastinaca) that grows under the ground is edible, the stem and leafy parts that you see growing above ground are toxic. A genus of flowering plants, the most well known is Pastinaca sativa, the common parsnip, which is cultivated as a vegetable root crop. Some species of parsnips have escaped cultivation and have become a weed of disturbed areas.

Kitagawia

Kitagawia also known as carrot or celery family, are flowering plants with hollow stems and divided leaves. They produce umbrella-like clusters of flowers that attract beneficial insects such as hoverflies and parasitic wasps, making them great for pest control in gardens. Some common umbellifers include parsley, dill, and fennel, all of which have culinary and medicinal uses.

Cowbane

Cowbane

Cowbane also known as carrot or celery family, are flowering plants with hollow stems and divided leaves. They produce umbrella-like clusters of flowers that attract beneficial insects such as hoverflies and parasitic wasps, making them great for pest control in gardens. Some common umbellifers include parsley, dill, and fennel, all of which have culinary and medicinal uses.

Cymopterus

Cymopterus is native to western North America. They are mostly stemless, taprooted perennial herbs with leaves at ground level and flowering scapes bearing yellow, white, or purple flowers. There are perhaps 35 to 50 species in the genus, but the count changes constantly.

Apiastrum

Apiastrum is an annual herb producing a branching stem up to 50 cm tall from a taproot. Leaves are plentiful along the stem, each split into many narrow lobes. Several inflorescences arise from the stem, often but not always from leaf axils. The inflorescence is a compound umbel of tiny flowers each with five pointed white petals. Apiastrum contains the single species. It is native to California and Baja California.

Madonna flower

Madonna flower

Madonna flower also known as carrot or celery family, are flowering plants with hollow stems and divided leaves. They produce umbrella-like clusters of flowers that attract beneficial insects such as hoverflies and parasitic wasps, making them great for pest control in gardens. Some common umbellifers include parsley, dill, and fennel, all of which have culinary and medicinal uses.

Schrenkia

Schrenkia also known as carrot or celery family, are flowering plants with hollow stems and divided leaves. They produce umbrella-like clusters of flowers that attract beneficial insects such as hoverflies and parasitic wasps, making them great for pest control in gardens. Some common umbellifers include parsley, dill, and fennel, all of which have culinary and medicinal uses.

Cow parsnip

Cow parsnip

Cow parsnip is a genus of biennial and perennial herbs in the carrot family Apiaceae. They are found throughout the temperate northern hemisphere and in high mountains as far south as Ethiopia. As of summer 2019 Plants of the World Online accepts the following 148 species.

Helosciadium

Helosciadium also known as carrot or celery family, are flowering plants with hollow stems and divided leaves. They produce umbrella-like clusters of flowers that attract beneficial insects such as hoverflies and parasitic wasps, making them great for pest control in gardens. Some common umbellifers include parsley, dill, and fennel, all of which have culinary and medicinal uses.

Bur parsley

Bur parsley

Bur parsley is a genus of flowering plants in the carrot family, containing only one member. It is native to Europe, North Africa, and the Middle East as far east as Iran. Bur parsley is an annual up to 41 cm tall with trailing stems. Leaves are highly divided into many small leaflets. Flowers are produced in an umbel of 2 to 5 flowers, each with white or pink petals. Fruit is an oblong capsule with many hooked spines on the surface.

Oreoselinum

Oreoselinum also known as carrot or celery family, are flowering plants with hollow stems and divided leaves. They produce umbrella-like clusters of flowers that attract beneficial insects such as hoverflies and parasitic wasps, making them great for pest control in gardens. Some common umbellifers include parsley, dill, and fennel, all of which have culinary and medicinal uses.

Laser

Laser also known as carrot or celery family, are flowering plants with hollow stems and divided leaves. They produce umbrella-like clusters of flowers that attract beneficial insects such as hoverflies and parasitic wasps, making them great for pest control in gardens. Some common umbellifers include parsley, dill, and fennel, all of which have culinary and medicinal uses.

Capnophyllum

Capnophyllum also known as carrot or celery family, are flowering plants with hollow stems and divided leaves. They produce umbrella-like clusters of flowers that attract beneficial insects such as hoverflies and parasitic wasps, making them great for pest control in gardens. Some common umbellifers include parsley, dill, and fennel, all of which have culinary and medicinal uses.

Coriandrum

Coriandrum is a genus containing the widely cultivated herb, coriander, also known as cilantro, and wild coriander, which is a less widespread but also edible plant. Members of the coriandrum genus play a fundamental role in flavoring many international cuisines. Typically the seeds and leaves are most commonly used in cooking, but all parts of the plant are edible.

Falcaria

Falcaria (Falcaria) are herbaceous plants native to the Middle East, Europe, and the Mediterranean. These weedy plants grow in abundance in disturbed sites and waste areas and can infest dry grasslands, meadows, and forest clearings. Furthermore, they are quite drought-tolerant and considered an invasive species in some areas, including North America.

Acronema

The genus acronema consists of 38 species of plants in the family Apiaceae found in the Sino-Himalayan region. It is also classified under the major group Angiosperms (flowering plants).

Lignocarpa

Lignocarpa also known as carrot or celery family, are flowering plants with hollow stems and divided leaves. They produce umbrella-like clusters of flowers that attract beneficial insects such as hoverflies and parasitic wasps, making them great for pest control in gardens. Some common umbellifers include parsley, dill, and fennel, all of which have culinary and medicinal uses.

Pimpinella

Pimpinella also known as carrot or celery family, are flowering plants with hollow stems and divided leaves. They produce umbrella-like clusters of flowers that attract beneficial insects such as hoverflies and parasitic wasps, making them great for pest control in gardens. Some common umbellifers include parsley, dill, and fennel, all of which have culinary and medicinal uses.

Smyrnium

Smyrnium is a genus of flowering plants in the family Apiaceae, the umbellifers. It ranges in country of S. Europe to Asia, occasionally naturalised in Britain.

Trepocarpus

Trepocarpus also known as carrot or celery family, are flowering plants with hollow stems and divided leaves. They produce umbrella-like clusters of flowers that attract beneficial insects such as hoverflies and parasitic wasps, making them great for pest control in gardens. Some common umbellifers include parsley, dill, and fennel, all of which have culinary and medicinal uses.

Selinum

Selinum tenuifolium can reach a height of 91 to 183 cm. It is a long-lived, tuberous-rooted, perennial plant bearing large umbels of thousands of tiny five-petalled white flowers from midsummer to early autumn. The delicate basal leaves are thin (hence the specific name tenuifolium - 'thin-leaved') and finely divided, giving them a fern-like appearance.

Harbouria

Harbouria also known as carrot or celery family, are flowering plants with hollow stems and divided leaves. They produce umbrella-like clusters of flowers that attract beneficial insects such as hoverflies and parasitic wasps, making them great for pest control in gardens. Some common umbellifers include parsley, dill, and fennel, all of which have culinary and medicinal uses.

Sphallerocarpus

Sphallerocarpus also known as carrot or celery family, are flowering plants with hollow stems and divided leaves. They produce umbrella-like clusters of flowers that attract beneficial insects such as hoverflies and parasitic wasps, making them great for pest control in gardens. Some common umbellifers include parsley, dill, and fennel, all of which have culinary and medicinal uses.

Goutweeds

Goutweeds

Goutweeds is a genus with species that grow in temperate climates throughout Asia. The genus has also been introduced to several Eastern states in the USA, where species can be recognized by their five-petalled white flowers. Members of the goutweeds genus spread aggressively by underground rhizomes and are considered an ecological threat in many areas since they form thick growths that choke out other species.

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Fig trees

Fig trees have been cultivated in many regions for their fruits, particularly the common fig, F. carica. Most of the species have edible fruits, although the common fig is the only one of commercial value. Fig trees are also important food sources for wildlife in the tropics, including monkeys, bats, and insects.

Brambles

Brambles are members of the rose family, and there are hundreds of different types to be found throughout the European countryside. They have been culturally significant for centuries; Christian folklore stories hold that when the devil was thrown from heaven, he landed on a bramble bush. Their vigorous growth habit can tangle into native plants and take over.

Maples

Prunus

Prunus is a genus of flowering fruit trees that includes almonds, cherries, plums, peaches, nectarines, and apricots. These are often known as "stone fruits" because their pits are large seeds or "stones." When prunus trees are damaged, they exhibit "gummosis," a condition in which the tree's gum (similar to sap) is secreted to the bark to help heal external wounds.

Nightshades

Nightshades is a large and diverse genus of plants, with more than 1500 different types worldwide. This genus incorporates both important staple food crops like tomato, potato, and eggplant, but also dangerous poisonous plants from the nightshade family. The name was coined by Pliny the Elder almost two thousand years ago.

Roses

Most species of roses are shrubs or climbing plants that have showy flowers and sharp thorns. They are commonly cultivated for cut flowers or as ornamental plants in gardens due to their attractive appearance, pleasant fragrance, and cultural significance in many countries. The rose hips (fruits) can also be used in jams and teas.

Oaks

Oaks are among the world's longest-lived trees, sometimes growing for over 1,000 years! The oldest known oak tree is in the southern United States and is over 1,500 years old. Oaks produce an exceedingly popular type of wood which is used to make different products, from furniture and flooring to wine barrels and even cosmetic creams.

Umbellifers

Apiaceae

Also known as: Carrot

Umbellifers also known as carrot or celery family, are flowering plants with hollow stems and divided leaves. They produce umbrella-like clusters of flowers that attract beneficial insects such as hoverflies and parasitic wasps, making them great for pest control in gardens. Some common umbellifers include parsley, dill, and fennel, all of which have culinary and medicinal uses.

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