Umbelliferae

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Umbelliferae - plants having flowers in umbels: parsley; carrot; anise; caraway; celery; dill

Apiaceae, carrot family, family Apiaceae, family Umbelliferae

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

Anethum, genus Anethum - dill

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

Cuminum, genus Cuminum - cumin

Daucus, genus Daucus - carrot

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 Petroselinum, Petroselinum - parsley

genus Pimpinella, Pimpinella - anise

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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These differences have been attributed by some authors to pressure, and the shape of the seeds in the ray-florets in some Compositae countenances this idea; but, in the case of the corolla of the Umbelliferae, it is by no means, as Dr.

But in regard to the differences both in the internal and external structure of the seeds, which are not always correlated with any differences in the flowers, it seems impossible that they can be in any way advantageous to the plant: yet in the Umbelliferae these differences are of such apparent importance--the seeds being in some cases, according to Tausch, orthospermous in the exterior flowers and coelospermous in the central flowers,--that the elder De Candolle founded his main divisions of the order on analogous differences.

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Habitat: A perennial aromatic shrub member of the Umbelliferae family growing up to 80cm in meadowland on mountain slopes and native to Europe.

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All parts of this plant (Conium maculatum) are very poisonous and it can be easily confused with others of the Umbelliferae such as the wild carrot (Daucus carota).

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Common name Scientific name Plant family Lavender Lavandula angustifolia Lamiaceae Onion Allium cepa Amaryllidaceae Flaxseed Linum usitatissimum Linaceae Caraway Carum carvi Umbelliferae Saad (Brown galingale) Cyperus fuscus Cyperaceae Common name Plant part Lavender Flowers Onion Bulbs Flaxseed Seeds Caraway Seeds Saad (Brown galingale) Seeds Table 2.

Toxicity of five plant oils to adult Tribolium castaneum (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae) and Oryzaephilus surinamensis (Coleoptera: Silvanidae)

Traditional medicinal plants and their components possess diverse biological properties and have been widely used as attractive resources for the prevention or treatment of neurodegenerative diseases.[10],[11] Glehnia littoralis , a perennial member of the Glehnia genus belonging to the family Umbelliferae , is distributed in Korea, China, and Japan and has been used in traditional oriental medicine as diaphoretics, antipyretics, analgesics, and expectorant.[12],[13] It has been reported that G.

Glehnia littoralis Extract Promotes Neurogenesis in the Hippocampal Dentate Gyrus of the Adult Mouse through Increasing Expressions of Brain-Derived Neurotrophic Factor and Tropomyosin-Related Kinase B

As is well known, essential oils are abundant in Umbelliferae (Apiaceae) plants [16].

Contact Toxicity and Repellency of the Essential Oil from Bupleurum bicaule Helm against Two Stored Product Insects

Levistilide A (LA) (Figure 1(a)) is a phthalide dimer isolated from Ligusticum chuanxiong and Angelica sinensis, both of them belonging to the Umbelliferae herb family [4-7].

Levistilide A Ameliorates NLRP3 Expression Involving the Syk-p38/JNK Pathway and Peripheral Obliterans in Rats

Ferulago trojana (Umbelliferae), a new species from western Turkey.

Antioxidant and Antimicrobial Activity of Ferulago trojana E. Akalin & Pimenov

* Umbelliferae Ervngium juncifolium c (Urb.) Mathias & Constance + Verbenaceae Amasonia hirta Benth.

Post-fire reproduction of herbs at a savanna-gallery forest boundary in Distrito Federal, Brazil/Reproducao pos-fogo de especies do estrato herbaceo em area de transicao Cerrado-Mata de Galeria no Distrito Federal, Brasil

Celery is related to parsley and fennel, a member of the Umbelliferae family of plants.

Celery

In: Vegetables II: Fabaceae, Liliaceae, Solanaceae, and Umbelliferae (Handbook of plant breeding), J.

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