Chaerophyllum temulum L.

Chaerophyllum temulum L. Sp. PI. 258. 1753
Myrrhis temulo All. Fl. Ped. 2: 29. 1785.
Scandix temula Roth, Fl. Germ. 1: 122. 1788.
Bellia temulenta Bubani, Fl. Pyren. 2: 412. 1900.
Selinum temulum E. H. L. Krause in Sturm, Fl. Deuts. ed. 2. 12: 63. 1904.
Plants erect, 3-10 dm. high, biennial from a taproot, the stems solitary, villous-hirsute; leaves ovate in general outline, large, 2-3-pinnate or 2-3-ternate, the leaflets ovate or ovateoblong, pinnately lobed, the lobes oval, obtuse, villous-hirsute; peduncles 3-10 cm. long, or occasionally obsolete; involucel of 5-8 broadly lanceolate, mucronate, narrowly scariousmargined, entire or toothed or lobed bractlets, shorter than the pedicels, reflexed in fruit; rays 6-12, unequal, 2-5 cm. long, pubescent; pedicels numerous, unequal, 4-10 mm. long; fruit oblong, beakless but tapering toward the apex, rounded at the base, 4.8-7 mm. long, 1.2—1.5 mm. broad, the ribs broader than the narrow intervals.
Type locality: "Ad Europae arvos, vias et sepes," collector unknown.
Distribution: Western Europe to northern Africa; adventive at Philadelphia. Pennsylvania