Falcaria vulgaris (Bernh) Longleaf
NOMENCLATURE
Falcaria: from Latin faix, falcis : sickle, ref. to shape of leaf segments.
vulgaris: common
BOTANICAL DESCRIPTION
TYPE: glaucous, freely branched perennial. STEMS: solid, striate.
HEIGHT : 30-50cm. UMBELS: compound. 9-18 slender, smooth, subequal rays
2-4 cm. Peduncle > than rays. leaf opposed. Terminal hermaphrodite. Lateral male.
LEAVES: 3-f Id, 1 or ) of segments 2-3 f Id, 30cm, linear lanceolate, falcate, acute,
sharply serrate, puberulent beneath, thick cartilaginous margin. Midrib with vein
parallel to it on each side. Petiole slender, widened to the sheathing base.
Cotlyledons contracted into a petiole. BRACTS: & bracteoles 4-15, subulate.
FLOWERS: white. Styles form stylopodium. Fl.7-9.
FRUIT : 3-4 mm, oblong, laterally compressed, smooth. Commisure narrow.
Mericarps with low ridges, wider than the grooves. Carpophore present.
Vittae solitary, slender. Pedicels 4-5 mm, slender. Styles 2 x > as
stylopodium, recurved. Stigma a small knob. 2n=22.
DISTRIBUTION: intro. Local, naturalised. E. Anglia, S.E. England, Channel Is.
Native Europe, from N. France + C.Russia, S. W.Asia.
