Water parsnip
Encyclopedia
Water Parsnip is a common name given to a number of flowering plant
s in the Apiaceae
family, including those from the Berula
and Sium
genera.
Flowering plant
The flowering plants , also known as Angiospermae or Magnoliophyta, are the most diverse group of land plants. Angiosperms are seed-producing plants like the gymnosperms and can be distinguished from the gymnosperms by a series of synapomorphies...
s in the Apiaceae
Apiaceae
The Apiaceae , commonly known as carrot or parsley family, is a group of mostly aromatic plants with hollow stems. The family is large, with more than 3,700 species spread across 434 genera, it is the sixteenth largest family of flowering plants...
family, including those from the Berula
Berula
Berula is a cosmopolitan monotypic genus of flowering plant in the Apiaceae, containing the single species Berula erecta, which is known by the common name cutleaf water parsnip, or also simply water parsnip as are some other plants in Apiaceae such as Sium latifolium and Sium suave. It is easily...
and Sium
Sium
Sium is a genus of flowering plant in the Apiaceae family.It contains the following species:* Sium bracteatum* Sium burchellii* Sium latifolium* Sium sisarum* Sium suave...
genera.
- Berula
- Berula erectaBerulaBerula is a cosmopolitan monotypic genus of flowering plant in the Apiaceae, containing the single species Berula erecta, which is known by the common name cutleaf water parsnip, or also simply water parsnip as are some other plants in Apiaceae such as Sium latifolium and Sium suave. It is easily...
, also known by the common name cutleaf water parsnip or water parsnip - Sium
- Sium latifoliumSium latifoliumThe Sium latifolium or Greater Water parsnip or sometimes simply Water parsnip is a plant species of the genus Sium....
, Greater water parsnip, or water parnsip - Sium suaveSium suaveSium suave , the Water Parsnip, is a herb belonging to the parsnip family and comes from Africa and some parts of the Northern Hemisphere.- Appearance :...
, or water parsnip