Common Name

Wild Parsnip, Blue Parsnip

Family

Araliaceae

Notes

Annual or biennial forb to 1m tall. Leaves mostly at the base of the plant, 2-5cm long overall, 30-50mm wide overall. Leaves lobed to dissected, the segments flat to linear, glaucous, or hairless to sparsely hairy. Flowers blue to violet, turning white, with 5 petals, in almost spherical many flowered umbels at the tops of the stems. Family Apiaceae in NSW and SA.

Differs from Trachymene thysanocarpa in that the 'seed' is one-sided with only one lobe.

Differs from Trachymene cyanopetala in that the flower groups have 50 or more flowers.

Description and photo in G.M. Cunningham, WE Mulham, PL Milthorpe and J H Leigh (1981 and later printings) Plants of Western New South Wales page 544

PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Trachymene~glaucifolia