Mystery plant/herb?

[Ali]

I'm not sure what this is.

It overwintered where it is and had reduced to a tiny green speck. It hadn't grown much last year.

It is flowering right now and is about 6 inches tall.

I have a feeling I think I know what it is but am not sure..... I think it is a herb ........ can anyone make a suggestion as to what?

[<-Rinky-Dink->]

Cow parsley, perhaps?

[willywetshirt]

Have a look at:-


en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthriscus_sylvestris


and

www.eatweeds.co.uk/sweet-pickled-cow-parsley-stems

BUT IT IS PRUDENT TO OBSERVE THE WARNING CONTAINED WITHIN.

[Madame Moorhen]

I really don't know, but there are a lot of wild flowers that look similar i.e. Queen Anne's Lace, which I think is also wild carrot. There's also pignuts (Conopodium majus) which I recently discovered growing in my woodland which has edible 'nuts' on the roots, yet again it is another feathery leaved, umbellifer flowered plant.

www.google.com/search?q=Conopodium+majus&hl=en&prmd=imvns&source=lnms&tbm=isch&ei=X-N7T67gEdPY0QWelYnDDQ&sa=X&oi=mode_link&ct=mode&cd=2&ved=0CAkQ_AUoAQ&biw=1280&bih=806

I wouldn't eat it though as although some of these pretty umbellifers are edible there are some that are very poisonous! Mind you, I don't think you are wondering about whether it is edible, just what it is, but as the thread is going along those lines, better safe than sorry!

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apiaceae

(Or are you testing us, and you let your carrots go to seed? )

[Ali]

I tasted a leaf yesterday, am still alive so I take it that its not poisonous

No its not a carrot test this time lol - but good idea! I don't think it's cow parsley coz there isn't any here and the plant is a bit small for that isnt it?

Could it be Cumin? <<edit - not Cumin - it's flowering too early>>

Its in a row that was corriander but its not corriander coz that died before winter.............

<<edit - bugga - I think I've been looking after a weed ! >>

[Madame Moorhen]

I look after weeds sometimes too! ;D But weeds are only wild flowers in the wrong place. Get a bit annoyed when I have been nurturing them in my seed trays though.

[tinkerbell]

could be cow parsley.Just make sure it isn't poisonous hemlock