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Photographer: Dan Tenaglia
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Family Apiaceae
Chaerophyllum procumbens (L.) Crantz
spreading chervil, wild chervil
Chaerophyllum: Greek for "pleasant" and phyllon, "leaf," referring to fragrance
procumbens: with trailing, prostrate stems
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| Status: | Special Concern |
| Plant: | erect or drooping, annual, 6"-20" tall forb, mostly smooth or sparsely hairy; stems spreading, often weak, usually branching at the base |
| Flower: | white, 5-parted; inflorescence usually compound umbels, sometimes with irregular flowers at the outer edge; blooms May |
| Fruit: | dry, elliptical or oblong, widest near the middle, splitting into 2 seeds- fruit: seed: |
| Leaf: | several times pinnately-divided, undersides smooth or with only a few hairs |
| Habitat: | moist; woods; in alluvial soil (water deposited) |
| (Glossary) |
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