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Apiaceae
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Sue Carnahan
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Mostly aromatic herbs with hollow stems in the internodal regions. Leaves usually pinnate, sometimes palmate, alternate and spiral, with sheathing petioles. Inflorescence a simple or compound umbel, often with subtending involucral bracts. Flowers small, perfect, radial, calyx usually 5 reduced, distinct sepals, corolla of 5 distinct petals, 5 stamens emerging from a stylopodium, 2 connate carpels, the ovaries inferior with axile placentation. Fruits a schizocarp of mericarps, supported by carpophores upon splitting.
Species within checklist: Kansas || << 1 - 50 taxa >>
Ammoselinum butleri
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Ammoselinum popei
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Anethum graveolens
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Apiastrum patens
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Apium petroselinum
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Berula erecta
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Berula incisa
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Berula pusilla
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Bupleurum rotundifolium
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Carum petroselinum
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Chaerophyllum dasycarpum
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Chaerophyllum floridanum
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Chaerophyllum procumbens
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Chaerophyllum shortii
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Chaerophyllum tainturieri
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Chaerophyllum texanum
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Cicuta bolanderi
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Cicuta bulbifera
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Cicuta curtissii
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Cicuta maculata
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Cicuta mexicana
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Cicuta occidentalis
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Cogswellia daucifolia
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Cogswellia foeniculacea
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Cogswellia orientalis
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Cogswellia villosa
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Conium maculatum
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Cryptotaenia canadensis
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Cymopterus acaulis
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Cymopterus montanus
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Cynosciadium pinnatum
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Daucus carota
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Daucus pusillus
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Deringa canadensis
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Discopleura nuttallii
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Erigenia bulbosa
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Eryngium leavenworthii
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Eryngium prostratum
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Eryngium yuccifolium
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Eulophus americanus
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Falcaria sioides
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Falcaria vulgaris
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Foeniculum foeniculum
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Foeniculum vulgare
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Heracleum lanatum
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Heracleum maximum
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Limnosciadium pinnatum
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Lomatium daucifolium
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Lomatium foeniculaceum
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Lomatium orientale
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