''Caucalis platycarpos'' is a species of
flowering plant
Flowering plants are plants that bear flowers and fruits, and form the clade Angiospermae (). The term angiosperm is derived from the Ancient Greek, Greek words (; 'container, vessel') and (; 'seed'), meaning that the seeds are enclosed with ...
in the family
Apiaceae
Apiaceae () or Umbelliferae is a family of mostly aromatic flowering plants named after the type genus ''Apium,'' and commonly known as the celery, carrot, or parsley family, or simply as umbellifers. It is the 16th-largest family of flowering p ...
, the only member of the genus ''Caucalis''. Common names are carrot bur parsley, small bur-parsley,
and burr parsley. It is native to Europe, North Africa, and the Middle East as far east as Iran.
[Tela Botanica, Caucalis à feuilles de carotte, ''Caucalis platycarpos'' L.]
in French with photo and French distribution map
Description
''Caucalis platycarpos'' is an
annual up to tall with trailing stems. Leaves are highly divided into many small
leaflets. Flowers are produced in an
umbel
UMBEL (Upper Mapping and Binding Exchange Layer) is a logically organized knowledge graph of 34,000 concepts and entity types that can be used in information science for relating information from disparate sources to one another. It was retired ...
of 2 to 5 flowers, each with white or pink
petal
Petals are modified leaves that form an inner whorl surrounding the reproductive parts of flowers. They are often brightly coloured or unusually shaped to attract pollinators. All of the petals of a flower are collectively known as the ''corol ...
s. The fruit is an oblong
capsule with many hooked
spines on the surface.
[Herbario de la Universidad Pública de Navarra, Flora Arvense de Navarra, familia Umbelliferae, ''Caucalis platycarpos'' L.]
in Spanish, with photos
Distribution and habitat
It is distributed in southwest Asia, North Africa and most of central and Southern Europe; almost all of the Iberian Peninsula.
It is found in crop fields, fallows and nitrophilous grasslands. Preferably in basic substrates at an altitude of 100-1000 (1600) meters. Flowering occurs in March-June (July) and fruiting in May-August.
References
External links
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Apioideae
Monotypic Apioideae genera
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