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Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Asterids: Campanulids: Apiales

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Foeniculum vulgare   FAMILY Apiaceae   Go to FSUS key



SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Foeniculum vulgare   FAMILY Apiaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)

Foeniculum vulgare

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 140-12-001:

Foeniculum vulgare   FAMILY Apiaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)

Foeniculum foeniculum

 

COMMON NAME:
Fennel


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image of Foeniculum vulgare, Fennel

USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913    pnd_fofo_001_lhd

        

 

 

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Foeniculum vulgare   FAMILY Apiaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Foeniculum vulgare   FAMILY Apiaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Foeniculum vulgare

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 140-12-001:
Foeniculum vulgare   FAMILY Apiaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Foeniculum foeniculum

 

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572

Forb
Biennial/Perennial

Habitat: Fields, dredge spoil, old gardens, waste places, vacant lots, roadsides, per Weakley's Flora

Non-native: Mediterranean Europe

Uncommon in Carolina Coastal Plain, rare or waifs elsewhere in GA-NC-SC

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Invasive?

This plant may be causing problems in natural areas outside its native range, according to authorities such as:

 

LEAVES:
Complexly compound into filiform segments
Alternate

FLOWER:
Spring/Summer
Yellow
Radially symmetrical
5-merous
Inferior ovary

Flowers in compound umbels

FRUIT:
Summer/Fall
Schizocarp of two mericarps

 

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