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Water Parsnip

Sium sauve

Carrot or Parsley Family - Apiaceae or Umbelliferae

Leaves sheath the stem and are alternate, compound and once-pinnately divided into 7 to 17 lance-like, sharply toothed leaflets.

(Photographed with Ross Kerr - late August)

An upright herb (2 to 6 feet tall) with a rigid, strongly ribbed stem in swamps and muddy banks of streams. At the ends of stems are a number of flat-topped, 2 to 4 inch wide umbels composed of many, small, white flowers with 5 petals.