NOMENCLATURE
Peucadanum: see P. ostrithium.
OTHER NAMES : Moench’s hog’s fennel.
BSBI Picture Link to Peucedanum palustre
BOTANICAL DESCRIPTION
TYPE : glabrous perennial with watery latex in young parts. Es. HEIGHT : 50-150cm.
ROOTS : has a yellow foetid gum resin. STEMS : hollow, grooved & angled, often purplish.
UMBELS : 3-8cm diam. Compound, 15-40 unequal rays 1.5-5 cm. Papillose-puberulent on the inner side. Peduncle > than rays, scabrid on top. Terminal hermaphrodite. Lateral hermaphrodite and male.
LEAVES : lower 2-4 pinnate, lanceolate ovate. Segments, pinnatifid, lobes 0.5-2cm oblong-lanceolate to ovate, subacute with finely serrulate cartilaginous margin & apex, acute. Petiole long, strongly canaliculate above, puberulent below, short brown or purple, usually auriculate sheathing base. Upper leaves smaller,
less divided with entirely sheathing short petiole. Cotyledons contracted into a petiole.
BRACTS : 4 or more, linear lanceolate or divided, deflexed. Bracteoles several,
linear-lanceolate, deflexed. = or < papillose pedicels.
FLOWERS : greenish-white. Sepals obtuse. Styles form a stylopodium. Fl. 7-9.
FRUIT : 4-5 mm, elliptical, dorsally compressed, fine white webbing on vittae. Commisure broad. Mericarps: prominent dorsal ridges, lateral ridges, narrow, flat wings closely appressed, thick. Carpophore present. Vittae solitary. Pedicels > than fruit, papillose. Styles > than stylopodium recurved. Stigma capitate. 2n=22
HABITAT : fens, marshes.
DISTRIBUTION : native, local. East Anglia, scattered in S. England. Europe to C. Asia.
EXTERNAL LINKS FOR Peucedanum palustre
These links to trusted websites and institutions may provide in depth or additional information regards cultivation, chemistry, edibility, images etc. for the species. (Some cross over info with Peucedanum officinale. Links last updated Aug 2012.
Wikipedia (EU) Wikipedia (GER) Plants For a Future (UK)
National Center for Biotechnology Info (USA)
Loire Valley (UK) India Herbs (IND)
Nothumberland Moths (UK) A Modern Herbal. M. Grieve (UK)
'Online Guide To Umbelliferae Of The British Isles' Compiled By J.M.Burton 2002