Umbellifers

 July 2008
 
Wild Carrot Hogweed on Mill Hill (upper meadow area)
                            Wild Carrot
Hogweed

18 May 2008
 

Flowers and leaves by the Adur riverbank in Old Shoreham. The umbellifer in the photograph is the poisonous Hemlock Water Dropwort not the edible Celery, Apium graveolens.
 

15 May 2008
 
Hemlock Water Dropwort (Spring Dyke) ID not confirmed
 
A Hemlock Water Dropwort, Oenanthe crocata, on the Spring Dyke. This plant is poisonous.
 
9 March 2008

Umbellifer in north Buckingham Park, north Shoreham
  A very early Cow Parsley, Anthriscus sylvestris
The north of Buckingham Park may be chalky.

ID by Paul Kennett on UKBotany
Alexanders, Smyrnium olustratum
Wild Parsnip, Pastinaca sativa 

 
1 December 2006

Under an overcast sky there were few flowers to be seen on the muddy Coastal Link Cyclepath north of the Toll Bridge, Old Shoreham. The umbellifer on the left was seen by the first wooden gate on the west side. This is the Common Hogweed, Heracleum sphondylium. By 6 December 2006, it had almost totally ceased in flower. Because of its small size I thought it was Angelica at first. 
 

30 August 2006
 
This small umbellifer was found on Mill Hill. There were no noticeable leaves to this plant. But I think this is Burnet Saxifrage. It could be Fool's Parsley, Aethusa cynapium.

19 June 2005
At the top of the Drive, Shoreham, perhaps 50 metres to the east, there was a large Hogweed plant in flower, easily two metres in height. So large was this specimen it could be the Giant Hogweed?

Yarrow is in the Daisy Family

Apiaceae (Umbelliferae) on flickr