Slightly toxic
Effect:
numbing
Areas of application:
not known
Plant parts used:
-
Collection time:
-
To find:
It grows on the edges of forests and in meadows. In Austria it is considered dangerous.
Ingredients:
Polyyne falcarinol
Miscellaneous:
The Rough Chervil is a biennial plant and can grow between 30 and 100 cm high, rarely even up to 140 cm. It has a spindle-shaped turnip. It forms several branched stems that are round in cross section, but slightly angular and bristly hairy. These bristly trichomes cause painful skin contact when touched. The stems are notable for their dark red spots towards the base and club-like thickenings at the branches. The smell of the plant is slightly spicy, reminiscent of carrots and caraway. The leaves are arranged alternately and are divided into leaf blades and leaf sheaths. The lower leaves are petiolate, the upper ones are sessile. The petioles are often dirty red. The leaves are usually hairy with short, bristly, shaggy trichomes. The leaf blade is double to triple pinnate. The leaf lobes of the last order are broadly ovate with a blunt, briefly pointed-spiny upper end and partly notched. The end sections are egg-shaped with a blunt upper end. The double umbel inflorescence is slightly arched with 5 to 11 radiating flowers. The umbel rays are more or less bristly. The umbels contain 7 to 14 flowers. Of the five bare, pure white, rarely reddish, very rarely yellow petals, those on the edge of the umbels show a slight elongation of up to 1.5 millimeters; They can be edged or cut up to half and are not ciliated. The flowering period is from May to July.
🛑 Animals that eat Rough Chervil suffer paralysis.