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Lomatium graveolens (dill)

Synonyms: Lomatium kingii; Musenium tenuifolium; Musineon tenuifolium; Peucedanum graveolens (heterotypic); Peucedanum kingii (heterotypic)

Infraspecies

Lomatium graveolens var. alpinum
Lomatium graveolens var. graveolens

Attributes

Allergen Potential [1]  Medium-Low
Edible [2]  May be edible. See the Plants For A Future link below for details.
Flower Type [2]  Hermaphrodite
Hazards [2]  Dill is said to contain the alleged 'psychotroph' myristicine; There are also reports that dill can cause photosensitivity and or dermatitis in some people;
Lifespan [2]  Annual
Pollinators [2]  Bees
Scent [2]  The seed contains up to 5% essentil oils;
Structure [3]  Herb
Usage [2]  The seed contains up to 4% essential oils; It is used in perfuming soaps; Some compounds of dill (d-carvone is mentioned as one of them), when added to insecticides, have greatly increased the effectiveness of the insecticides;
Height [2]  30 inches (0.75 m)
Width [2]  6 inches (0.15 m)
View Plants For A Future Record : Lomatium graveolens

Protected Areas

Predators

Providers

Pollinated by 
Apis mellifera (honey bee)[6]

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Puccinia nitida[5]

External References

USDA Plant Profile

NatureServe Explorer

NatureServe Explorer

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Derived from Allergy-Free Gardening OPALS™, Thomas Leo Ogren (2000)
♦ 2Plants For A Future licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License
♦ 3Kattge, J. et al. (2011b) TRY - a global database of plant traits Global Change Biology 17:2905-2935
♦ 4Biological Records Centre Database of Insects and their Food Plants
♦ 5Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
♦ 6Robertson, C. Flowers and insects lists of visitors of four hundred and fifty three flowers. 1929. The Science Press Printing Company Lancaster, PA.
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0