Petroselinum segetum

Unité de Malherbologie & Agronomie
Weed Science & Agronomy
INRA-Dijon

Bayer Code : parse

Synonym(s) of Sc. name:

Classification: Umbelliferae, Dicotyledonous

Common name: corn parsley

Synonym(s) of Common name:

Name per country: DE : Wilde Petersilie ; ES : perejil ; FR : persil des moissons ; IT : prezzemolo dei campi ; PT : ; EN : corn parsley ;

Biological type: Annual

Seed:

Seedling:

- Cotyledons elliptic, clavated tip, more or less stalked.

- Leaves entire, ovate -deltoid, irregularly toothed

Adult plant:

- Height: 30-60 cm.

- Stem: erect, very branched, with very tapered branches, nearly leafless.

- Leaves lower lobed -dentate. Blade light-green beneath, many-veined. Later leaves pinnately divided, with 13-19 ovate, cut-toothed leaflets.

- Flowers white or pink in 2-5 rayed and very irregular umbels, subsessile or long pedicellate (about 15 mm long). Linear involucral bracts.

- Fruit : achene ovoid, without scent. Carypophore persistent on the inflorescence after falling of the fruit.

- Rare in crops, but frequency increasing.

- Biological type: annual.

Ecological profile (click on flags): Rare Rare Rare Rare