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    Apiaceae (Umbelliferae) : The Carrot Family

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    The Apiaceae family, also known as the carrot family, includes 446 genera and 3,540 species of mostly aromatic herbs. Characteristic features include alternate leaves with sheathing bases, hollow stems, aromatic oils and compounds, umbel-shaped flower clusters, small inconspicuous flowers with 5 petals and stamens, and schizocarpic fruits. Many species have economic uses as food, spices, medicines, or perfumes. The carrot is a major vegetable crop and herbs like fennel and parsley are used as flavorings. The family is nearly worldwide but most common in temperate regions, especially the Old World.

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    The Apiaceae family, also known as the carrot family, includes 446 genera and 3,540 species of mostly aromatic herbs. Characteristic features include alternate leaves with sheathing bases, hollow stems, aromatic oils and compounds, umbel-shaped flower clusters, small inconspicuous flowers with 5 petals and stamens, and schizocarpic fruits. Many species have economic uses as food, spices, medicines, or perfumes. The carrot is a major vegetable crop and herbs like fennel and parsley are used as flavorings. The family is nearly worldwide but most common in temperate regions, especially the Old World.

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    The Apiaceae family, also known as the carrot family, includes 446 genera and 3,540 species of mostly aromatic herbs. Characteristic features include alternate leaves with sheathing bases, hollow stems, aromatic oils and compounds, umbel-shaped flower clusters, small inconspicuous flowers with 5 petals and stamens, and schizocarpic fruits. Many species have economic uses as food, spices, medicines, or perfumes. The carrot is a major vegetable crop and herbs like fennel and parsley are used as flavorings. The family is nearly worldwide but most common in temperate regions, especially the Old World.

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    The Apiaceae family, also known as the carrot family, includes 446 genera and 3,540 species of mostly aromatic herbs. Characteristic features include alternate leaves with sheathing bases, hollow stems, aromatic oils and compounds, umbel-shaped flower clusters, small inconspicuous flowers with 5 petals and stamens, and schizocarpic fruits. Many species have economic uses as food, spices, medicines, or perfumes. The carrot is a major vegetable crop and herbs like fennel and parsley are used as flavorings. The family is nearly worldwide but most common in temperate regions, especially the Old World.

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    Apiaceae (Umbelliferae) crispum) etc.

    Some of these are used as


    flavorings for alcoholic beverages, especially
    The Carrot Family anise.
    - Many umbellifers have medicinal uses, for
    446 genera gastrointestinal complaints, cardiovascular
    3,540 species ailments, and as stimulants, sedatives, etc.
    Characteristic features:
    - Usually herbs, leaves alternate with
    sheathing bases; internodes usually hollow.
    - Plants aromatic with ethereal oils,
    terpenoids, saponins and other compounds.
    - Inflorescences usually involucrate compound
    umbels (sometimes simple or condensed into
    a head).
    - Flowers: small, inconspicuous. 5 sepals,
    distinct, very reduced; 5 petals distinct but
    developing from a ring-like primordium,
    usually inflexed; 5 stamens, filaments
    distinct; 2 connate carpels in an inferior
    ovary.
    - Styles are basally swollen to form a nectar-
    secreting structure (stylopodium) atop the
    ovary.
    - Fruit: a schizocarp, the 2 dry segments
    (mericarps) attached to an entire to deeply
    forked central stalk (carpophores).
    - Seeds with oil glands.
    Asterids: Reduced Phylogeny of Required
    Families

    Distribution:
    This family is nearly cosmopolitan, though it is
    most common in temperate upland areas. About
    two-third of the species of Apiaceae are native to
    the Old World.
    Economic Uses:
    - One remarkable feature of umbellifers is the
    wide range of uses of different species,
    ranging from food and fodder to spices,
    poisons and perfumery.
    - The carrot (Daucus carota) is a major
    vegetable crop, with a world production of References for further inquiry:
    23.3 megatons. - Heywood, V.H., Brummitt, R.K., Culham, A., &
    - Herbs used for flavoring include fennel Seberg, O. Apiaceae. Pp. 35-38. In: Flowering Plant
    (Foeniculum vulgare), parsley (Petroselinum Families of the World. New York, Firefly Books
    (2007).

    Prepared by: Mischa Olson


    Year updated: Spring 2013

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