Scientific name:

Foeniculum vulgare

Vernacular name:

Fennel

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Fennel

Scientific name: Foeniculum vulgare Mill.

Diagnostic features
Stems erect, ± glaucous, to 2.5m.
Fruits often not developing or developing very late in season, 4-5mm.

Chromosome number: (2n=22).

Habitat
Probably introduced-naturalized; open ground and waste places, especially near the coast.

Distribution
Well naturalized in British Isles North to North Ireland, Man and Yorks, scarce and mainly casual further North; Europe.

This species is keyed out on Page 944 in the Text Key.

Note
Nowadays rarely grown on field-scale.

Tutin, T.G. 1980. Umbellifers of the British Isles. BSBI Handbook No. 2. Botanical Society of the British Isles, London. Illustrated by Ann Davies.

Foeniculum vulgare 2 (Flowering habit, picture taken in cultivation by C.A. Stace)
Foeniculum vulgare 3 (Fruits, picture taken in cultivation by M.S.M. Sosef)
Foeniculum vulgare a (Habit and fruit details, drawing by A. Davies in Tutin, 1980; BSBI Handbook 2.)

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