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carrot family

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Noun1.carrot familycarrot family - plants having flowers in umbels: parsley; carrot; anise; caraway; celery; dill
rosid dicot family - a family of dicotyledonous plants
order Umbellales, Umbellales - plants having umbels or corymbs of uniovulate flowers; includes the Umbelliferae (chiefly herbs) and Cornaceae (chiefly trees or shrubs)
umbellifer, umbelliferous plant - any of numerous aromatic herbs of the family Umbelliferae
Aethusa, genus Aethusa - fool's parsley
genus Angelica - biennial or perennial herbs of the northern hemisphere; have a taproot
Anthriscus, genus Anthriscus - chervil: of Europe, North Africa and Asia
Apium, genus Apium - celery
genus Astrantia - a genus of Eurasian herbs of the family Umbelliferae with aromatic roots and palmate leaves and showy flowers
Carum, genus Carum - caraway
Cicuta, genus Cicuta - small genus of perennial herbs having deadly poisonous tuberous roots: water hemlock
Conium, genus Conium - small genus of highly toxic biennials: hemlock
Conopodium, genus Conopodium - a genus of dicotyledonous plants of the family Umbelliferae
Eryngium, genus Eryngium - large genus of decorative plants with thistlelike flower heads; cosmopolitan in distribution
Foeniculum, genus Foeniculum - very small genus of aromatic European herbs with pinnately compound leaves and yellow flowers
genus Heracleum, Heracleum - widely distributed genus of plants with usually thick rootstocks and large umbels of white flowers
genus Levisticum, Levisticum - genus of aromatic European herbs with yellow flowers
genus Myrrhis, Myrrhis - European perennial herbs having pinnate leaves and umbels of white flowers
genus Oenanthe, Oenanthe - poisonous herbs: water dropworts
genus Pastinaca, Pastinaca - a rosid dicot genus of the family Umbelliferae; includes parsnips
genus Sanicula, Sanicula - chiefly American herbs: sanicle
genus Seseli, Seseli - a rosid dicot genus that includes moon carrots
genus Sison, Sison - genus including stone parsley
genus Sium, Sium - perennial of wet and marshy places in the northern hemisphere: water parsnips
genus Smyrnium, Smyrnium - Alexanders


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The desert cymopterus is a perennial herb in the carrot family.
ABC also pointed out that the public should not confuse star anise with anise, sometimes called aniseseed (Pimpinella anisum), a member of the carrot family.
The Center for Biological Diversity and the California Native Plant Society sued in federal court in San Francisco, alleging the Bush administration failed to respond to a citizens' petition to safeguard the desert cymopterus, a perennial herb in the carrot family, also known as desert spring parsley.
 
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