Family: Apiaceae Alexanders Smyrnium olusatrum Flowering time: March-June. Biennial. Archaeophyte Introduced by the Romans, widespread and naturalised on coastal waste ground, roadsides and cliffs but range steadily increasing inland A stout hairless plant, celery-scented, with yellow-green flowers in many-rayed umbels. Shiny dark green leaves, basal leaves with stalked leaflets. Sometimes host to the rust fungus Puccinia smyrnii

Alexanders, Smyrnium olusatrum
Arne, Dorset. 2014