Citation: Gaertner, Fruct. 1:82, t. 20, fig. 6. (1788).

Synonymy: Tordylium nodosum L., Sp. Pl. 240 (1753); Caucalis nodosa (L.)Scop., Fl. Carn. edn 2, 1:192 (1771).

Common name: Knotted hedge-parsley, knotted parsley, hedge parsley.

Description:
Procumbent, ascending or erect annual herb, 10-60 cm high, hispid throughout; stems much-branched, striate, rigid; leaves petiolate, oblong in outline, 1- or 2-pinnate; leaflets ovate-oblong with linear lobes; petiole about as long as the blade, with a scarious basal sheath.

Umbels subglobular, sessile or short-pedunculate, leaf-opposed; peduncles to 2.5 cm long, much shorter than the leaves; involucre absent; rays few, very short; bracteoles of involucel linear, acute, exceeding the subsessile flowers; pedicels very short; petals white; stamens pinkish.

Fruits ovoid, 2.5-4 mm long; carpophore 2-fid, persistent; mericarps of the inner fruits tuberculate; inner mericarps of the outer fruits usually tuberculate and the outer mericarps with stiff finely barbellate straight or apically short-hooked bristles; sometimes all mericarps with such bristles.

Published illustration: Ross-Craig (1959) Drawings Brit. Pl. 13:t. 27.

Distribution:  Recorded from pastures and roadsides. S.Aust.: EP, SL, KI, SE.   Qld; N.S.W.; Vic.; Tas.   Native to western and southern Europe. Conservation status: naturalised Flowering time: Sept. — Dec.

SA Distribution Map based on current data relating to specimens held in the State Herbarium of South Australia

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