Common Hedge Parsley
Torilis arvensis
Also known as: sock bane · spreading hedge-parsley · spreading hedge parsley · tall sock-destroyer · Hedge Parsley
Plantae
COMMON
Stats
- Lifespan
- Annual
- Size
- Medium
- Diet
- Photosynthetic
- Biome
- Temperate grassland
- Range
- Europe
- Movement
- Sessile
- Breeding
- Seeds
- Defense
- Spines
- Status
- Common
About
A weedy carrot-family annual with delicate lacy foliage and small white flower umbels, common hedge parsley is easy to overlook until its fruit ripens into tiny bristly burrs covered in hooked spines that cling tenaciously to fur and clothing to hitch a ride to new ground.
Life cycle
- 1.seedA dormant seed waits for water and warmth before germinating.
- 2.sproutA first shoot emerges with cotyledon leaves and a tap root reaching down.
- 3.saplingA young plant grows true leaves and a stem or trunk, putting on height each season.
- 4.matureFully grown, flowering or fruiting at adult size.
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Taxonomy
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Phylum
- Tracheophyta
- Class
- Magnoliopsida
- Order
- Apiales
- Family
- Apiaceae
- Genus
- Torilis
- Species
- Torilis arvensis