Chaerophyllum aromaticum, L.

1. C. aromaticum L. View in CoL , Sp. Pl. 259 (1753) View Cited Treatment .

Robust perennial up to 200 cm, with a long creeping rhizome. Leaves usually 2-temate or rarely pinnate; lobes 40-100 mm, lanceolate to ovate, acutely and coarsely serrate, obliquely cuneate at base, glabrous to whitepuberulent beneath, those of upper leaves usually acuminate. Petals white. Fruit 8-15 mm, narrowly ovoid-oblong; stylopodium depressed-conical, wider than apex of fruit; styles flexuous; pedicels scarcely thickened in fruit. C. & E. Europe, Balkan peninsula, N. Italy. Al Au Cz Ge G r Hu It Ju Po Rm Rs (N, B, C, W). C. euboeum Halâcsy , Magyar Bot. Lapok 11: 152 (1912), from E. Greece ( C. Evvoia ) is an obscure species which appears to have been collected once only. It is probably related to 1, but is c. 30 cm and smaller throughout, and has ternately pinnatisect leaves with wide, undivided segments.