Photos: Askeaton, Co.Limerick

Wild Celery Apium graveolens Smaileog Family: Apiaceae Flowering June - August. Biennial. Native. Short-stalked, terminal umbels of whitish flowers, bracts and bracteoles absent. Ridged, oval fruit. Hollow, grooved stems with once-pinnate, shiny, dark-green basal leaves, the stalks sheathing stems. Narrow, trifoliate upper leaves. Hairless, erect plant, height 30-60cm. Usually coastal on the upper reaches of salt-marshes, beside ditches, ponds and rivers and on sea walls.

     



Wild Celery, Apium graveolens. Askeaton, Co.Limerick. July 2009