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Anthriscus cerefolium (garden chervil)

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Wikipedia Abstract

(This article is about the culinary herb. For the root vegetable, see Chaerophyllum bulbosum. For other plants sometimes referred to as chervil, see Anthriscus and Chaerophyllum.) Chervil (/ˈtʃɜːrˌvɪl/; Anthriscus cerefolium), sometimes called garden chervil to distinguish it from similar plants also called chervil, or French parsley, is a delicate annual herb related to parsley. It is commonly used to season mild-flavoured dishes and is a constituent of the French herb mixture fines herbes.
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Infraspecies

Anthriscus cerefolium var. cerefolium
Anthriscus cerefolium var. trachyspermus

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
Lifespan [2]  Biennial
Pollinators [2]  Insects, Lepidoptera
Scent [2]  The bruised leaves are pleasantly scented.
Structure [4]  Herb
Usage [2]  The growing plant is said to repel slugs;
Height [2]  18 inches (0.45 m)
Width [2]  10 inches (0.25 m)
Light Preference [3]  Mixed Sun/Shade
Soil Fertility [3]  Rich
Soil Moisture [3]  Moist
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Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Isles of Scilly Complex 66350 England, United Kingdom    
Palava Protected Landscape Area V   Czech Republic  
Parco Del Somma-Vesuvio e Miglio D'Oro National Park II 33648 Italy
The Wash and North Norfolk Coast 266284 England, United Kingdom

Predators

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Erysiphe heraclei[6]
Peronospora crustosa[6]

External References

USDA Plant Profile

NatureServe Explorer

Citations

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♦ 1Derived from Allergy-Free Gardening OPALS™, Thomas Leo Ogren (2000)
♦ 2Plants For A Future licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License
♦ 3Ellenberg, H., Weber, H.E., Dull, R., Wirth, V., Werner, W., Paulissen, D. (1991) Zeigerwerte von Pflanzen in Mitteleuropa. Scripta Geobotanica 18, 1–248
♦ 4Kattge, J. et al. (2011b) TRY - a global database of plant traits Global Change Biology 17:2905-2935
♦ 5Biological Records Centre Database of Insects and their Food Plants
♦ 6Jorrit 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.
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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