Cumin

Cuminum cyminum L. Sp. PI. 254. 1753
Ligusticum Cuminum Crantz, Class. Umbell. 82. 1767. Luerssenia Cyminum Kuntze. Rev. Gen. 1: 268. 1891. Selinum Cuminum E. H. L. Krause in Sturm, Fl. Deuts. ed. 2. 12: 91. 1904.
Annual, glabrous, 2-3 dm. high; basal leaves ovate in general outline, excluding the petioles 5-10 cm. long, ternately dissected, the ultimate divisions linear-filiform, entire, 1-5 cm. long; petioles 1-2 cm. long; peduncles 3-10 cm. long; involucre of 5-7 linear and entire or ternate bracts with linear divisions, unequal, 1-5 cm. long, reflexed; involucel of bractlets like the bracts, 5-10 mm. long; rays 2-6, 5-25 mm. long, unequal; pedicels 2-8 mm. long; calyxteeth about 1 mm. long; petals white or rose; fruit oblong, 6-7 mm. long, 2.5-3 mm. broad; seed-face slightly concave. Type locality: "In Aegypto, Aethiopia," collector unknown.
Distribution: Mediterranean region; adventive in Texas.