Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

Cyclospermum leptophyllum

Flowers. Australian Plant Image Inde, photographer Murray Fagg, weed in Australian National Botanic Gardens, Canberra, ACT

Flowering plant. Photographer Don Wood, near Nowra

'Seeds'. Australian Plant Image Inde, photographer Murray Fagg, weed in Australian National Botanic Gardens, Canberra, ACT

Common name

Slender celery

Family

Apiaceae

Where found

Pastures; gardens, roadsides, and other disturbed areas. Widespread, mainly in the Sydney region.

Notes

Introduced annual herb to 0.7 m tall. Stems hairless. Leaves alternating up the stems, 2–10 cm long, compound, with 3–4 threadlike leaflets. Flowers with 5 white petals about 0.3 mm long, in few to many-flowered clusters. Flowers throughout the year but mainly Oct.–Jan.

PlantNET decription:  http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Cyclospermum~leptophyllum (accessed 7 January, 2021)