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| Seseli gummiferum at the Orto Botanico di Brera, Milano | |
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| Seseli gummiferum Pall. ex Smith | |
Seseli gummiferum, the moon carrot, is a species of herbaceous perennial plant in the family Apiaceae.
Seseli gummiferum can reach a height of about 1.4 metres (4 ft 7 in). It has a thick, branching stem with a basal rosette of greyish—green leaves and five-inch umbels of white flowers, sometimes with a pink tinge. This plant flowers from July to September.
Seseli gummiferum is present in the Eastern Europe, in Aegean and the Crimea.
It grows in rocky mountainous areas, on limestone cliffs at an elevation up to 1,000 metres (3,300 ft).
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Seseli is a genus of herbaceous perennial plants. They are sometimes woody at base with a conic taproot. Leaf blades are 1–3-pinnate or pinnately decompound. Umbels are compound, with bracts few or absent. Petals are white or yellow, and the fruit ovoid or ellipsoid.
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Seseli libanotis, also known by the common names moon carrot, mountain stone-parsley, or säfferot, is a species of herb in the genus Seseli of the carrot family, Apiaceae. It is native to Eurasia, throughout which it is widespread.
Moon carrot is the common name for two members of the genus Seseli:
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