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Genus Pastinaca L.
Род 580 (56). ПАЩАРНАК — PASTINACA I..¹
L., Sp. Pl.. ed. 1 (1753) 262; Gen. Pl.. ed. 5 (1754) 126

Fam: Umbelliferae Juss. (Apiaceae}
Genus: Pastinaca L.
English Name: Wild parsnip

Description:

Biennial to perennial herbaceous plants with spindle-shaped or fleshy thickened rhizome. Stems not swollen at the nodes, ribbed and grooved or roughly ridged to polygonal, branched at the base or top, scattered fibrous, white layered or softly fibrous. Leaves pinnately to doubly pinnately divided, main shares asymmetrical or symmetrical, spaced or not spaced, elliptical, broadly elliptical to rounded, irregularly shallowly cut or unevenly toothed, on either side or on one side more densely short, fibrous or below with densely layered grayish-white hairs. Complicated umbels and umbels with or without a shell. Calyx missing or poorly developed. Petals heart-shaped, rounded ovate to broadly elliptical, entire, inwardly curved, yellow, orange, glabrous or with single hairs on the surface, uncut. Fruit broadly elliptical to rounded, slightly swollen or flattened, with filamentous ribs, lateral narrowly winged.

Table for determination of the species

1   The shell of the complex canopy of 3 - 5 narrowly lanceolate, herbaceous leaves ........................................ 2. - P. hirsuta Panč.
1* The shell of the complex canopy of one leaf or missing ............................................................................................................. 2
2 Stems covered with grayish-white, layered hairs. Plants with an unpleasant odor ............................ 3. - P. umbrosa Stev. and DC.
2* Stems bare or covered with sparse scattered hairs .............................................................................................. 1. - P. sativa L.
¹ Developed by D. Peev.

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

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Pastinaca (parsnips) is a genus of flowering plant in the family Apiaceae, comprising 14 species.[citation needed] The economically most important member of the genus is Pastinaca sativa, the parsnip.

Etymology

The etymology of the generic name Pastinaca is not known with certainty. The name may be derived from the Latin word pastino (or pastinare), meaning "to prepare the ground for planting of the vine" (or more simply, "to dig") or the Latin word pastus, meaning "food", liberally translated as "Earth-food".[1][2]

Taxonomy

For comparison, The Plant List, the Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS), and the National Plant Germplasm System (NPGS) recognize 6, 1, and 16 species in the genus Pastinaca, respectively.

The Plant List[3]
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Pastinaca hirsuta Panèiæ
                 Accepted

                                  Accepted

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), The Plant List[3], Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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