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Genus Chaerophyllum L.
Род 532. (8). ЦВОЛ, БАЛДАРАН — СНАЕROPH YLLUM L.¹
L., Sp. Pl. ed. 1 (1753) 258; Gen. Pl. ed. 5 (1754) 125

Fam: Umbelliferae Juss. (Apiaceae}
Genus: Chaerophyllum L.
English Name: Chervil

Description:

Perennial herbaceous plants with rhizomes and thick roots or biennial with tubercle-thickened roots, rarely annual with simple spindle-thin roots. Stem erect, cylindrical, dense or hollow, branched, bare or fibrous, green or with reddish spots. Leaves 1 to 3 times, or multiple feathery-like cut or twice triple with entire or deeply cut shares, naked or fibrous. Complicated umbels, usually with numerous, unequally long rays, at the base most often without a shell, with a shell of several rapidly falling leaves, or less often a shell of many-leafed, facing down. Umbls with numerous blossoms, with bisexual and stamen blossoms, but always in the center with fertile blossom, at the base with a sheath of numerous, at least at the end or completely membranous, naked or fibrous, with fruits usually curved downwards bracts. A toothless calyx. Petals white, pink to purple-red. or yellow, naked or fibrous, broadly ovate in reverse, more or less deeply cut and narrowly tapered in the cut with a curved inward narrow sharpened share, at the base wedge-shaped or suddenly narrowed into a short nail; the ends sometimes a little bigger. Fruits oblong cylindrical, narrowly elliptical, very narrowly ovoid, slightly laterally flattened, narrowed to the apex but without root; stylopodium conical to short conical; the styles filamentous or thickened, sideways spread aut, curved downwards or erect; carpophore only at the apex, to the middle or almost to the base of the two-part. Mericarpes in cross section semicircular to nearly circular or rounded pentagon with 5 broad, rounded, smooth, with ripening clearly convex main ribs; canals large, single, located below the grooves and 2 on the inside; endosperm on abdominal side with longitudinal groove.

Table for determination of the species

1    Leaves 2 times triple cut, usually with 9 entire leaves, densely serrated at the end. Covering the main rays of numerous, lance, downward curved leaflets ......................................................................................................................... - Ch. byzantinum Boiss.
1* Leaves 1 to 3 times or multiple times cut with numerous shares, more or less deeply lobed. Main rays at base without sheath or with 1 - 2 rapidly falling leaflets .................................................................................................................................................... 2
2   Bracts naked on the edge. Biennial, rarely perennial plants with tubercle thick root ………...................... 3. - Ch. bulbosum L.
2* Bracts ciliated on the edge. Biennial plants with spindle root or perennials with rhizomes ....................................................... 3
3   Petals ciliated on the edge. The styles almost erect ...................................................................................... 2. - Ch. hirsutum L.
3* Petals bare. The style.................................................................................................................................................................. 4
4   Perennial plant with rhizome. Leaves 3 - 4 times feathery-like cut with long pointed shares. Main rays 12 - 18. Fruits 8 - 12 mm long ............................................................................................................................................................... 4. - Ch. aureum L.
4* Biennial plant with spindle-shaped root. Leaves 2 - 3 times feathery-like divided into broad, blunt shares. Main rays 6 - 12. Fruits 4 - 7 mm long ..................................................................................................................................... 5. - Ch. temulentum L.
¹ Developed by Yves. Asenov.

From:   „Флора на Н. Р. България”, том VIII, БАН, София, (1982)

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Chaerophyllum is a genus of flowering plant in the family Apiaceae, with 35 species native to Europe, Asia, North America, and northern Africa. It includes the cultivated root vegetable Chaerophyllum bulbosum (turnip rooted chervil).
The genus name is an alteration of Latin chaerephyllum, from Ancient Greek χαιρέφυλλον (khairéphullon "chervil"), from χαίρω (khaírō "to be glad") and φύλλον (phúllon "leaf").

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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Distribution in Bulgaria: (Conspectus of the Bulgarian Vascular Flora) = conspectus&gs_l= Zlc.
Distribution:

References: „Флора на Н. Р. България”, том VIII, БАН, София, (1982), Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

SPECIES:

Chaerophyllum hirsutum L. - Hairy chervil

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