Wild Celery - Apium graveolens
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Wild Celery - Apium graveolens | dylan | North Somerset | 30 Sep 2021, 6:51 p.m. | 26 Sep 2021, 5:12 p.m. | |
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Wild Celery - Apium graveolens | dylan | North Somerset | 30 Sep 2021, 6:51 p.m. | 26 Sep 2021, 5:12 p.m. | |
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Wild Celery - Apium graveolens | dylan | North Somerset | 30 Sep 2021, 6:51 p.m. | 26 Sep 2021, 5:12 p.m. | |
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Wild Celery - Apium graveolens | dylan | North Somerset | 30 Sep 2021, 6:51 p.m. | 26 Sep 2021, 5:13 p.m. |
Species Description
Widespread but local throughout the Southern half of the UK where it is restricted to coasts. Inland and elsewhere it is scattered. Habitat includes: sea-walls, beside brackish ditches, tidal river banks, drift lines, uppermost parts of saltmarshes, disturbed marshes, pond margins, ditches, gravel-pits etc. Growing habit: Biennial / monocarpic (flowers once then dies) Perennial. Height: Up to 1 m. 1 subspecies and 2 varieties: Apium graveolens subsp. graveolens (0 records), Cultivated Celery (Apium graveolens var. dulce), Celeriac (Apium graveolens var. rapaceum). It is in declined.