Parsley (8)
Flowers in the Parsley family have tiny flowers with five petals in usually flat clusters. The leaves are usually compound. There are many more members of this family which is sometimes commonly called Celery or Carrot.
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Mountain Parsley Family:
Parsley (Apiaceae) Grows from a few inches at alpine elevations as shown below, to 2 feet high with a slender stem and basal leaves that have long stalks and narrow leaf segments. Common.
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Alpine Parsley Family:
Parsley (Apiaceae) Grows to less than 4" high with dense flower clusters barely 3/4" across. Leaves are thickened and shiny and divided into leaflets which are further divided into pointed leaflets. |
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Eastwood's Parsley Family:
Parsley (Apiaceae) Grows from a few inches at alpine elevations as shown below, to 6" in large patches with glossy, deeply cut, fan-shaped leaves along the leaf stem. The bracts extend beyond the flower heads.
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Indian Balsam Family:
Parsley (Apiaceae) Grows up to 3ft tall with fleshy stems and finely dissected leaves. The tiny flowers can appear purplish. |
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Gray's Biscuitroot Family:
Parsley (Apiaceae) Less than 4" high with leaning flowers stalks and leaf segments less than ¼" long. |
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Nineleaf Biscuitroot Family:
Parsley (Apiaceae) Grows to 4" with long thin leaves divided in threes, then in three again. |
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Sessileflower Indian Parsley Family:
Parsley (Apiaceae) Growing 8" high in a dense bright green tuft with dry stalks from the previous year. Leaves are divided into narrow segments. An early bloomer. |
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Fendler's Springparsley Family:
Parsley (Apiaceae) Grows low to the ground with glossy, dissected leaves on stems to 3" long. Flowers grow in clusters of 6 to 9 branches each with green bracts extending beyond the cluster. Flower stalks are longer than the leaf stems. An early bloomer. |
