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Garden Parsley
Garden Parsley
Petroselinum crispum
Also known as: parsley · Italian parsley
Plantae
UNCOMMON

Stats

Lifespan
Biennial
Size
Small
Diet
Photosynthetic
Biome
Temperate grassland
Range
Mediterranean
Movement
Sessile
Breeding
Seeds
Defense
Toxins
Status
Uncommon

About

A biennial herb native to the central Mediterranean and now the most widely cultivated culinary herb in the world. Ounce for ounce, its leaves contain three times more vitamin C than oranges.

Life cycle

  1. 1.
    seed
    A dormant seed waits for water and warmth before germinating.
  2. 2.
    sprout
    A first shoot emerges with cotyledon leaves and a tap root reaching down.
  3. 3.
    sapling
    A young plant grows true leaves and a stem or trunk, putting on height each season.
  4. 4.
    mature
    Fully grown, flowering or fruiting at adult size.

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Taxonomy

Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Tracheophyta
Class
Magnoliopsida
Order
Apiales
Family
Apiaceae
Genus
Petroselinum
Species
Petroselinum crispum