| Author | L. | |
| Distribution | Mostly in the Mountains, scattered in the Piedmont, disjunct to Beaufort County in the outer Coastal Plain. First collected in 1933 on a roadside near Lake Junaluska, Haywood County.
Native of Europe; in N.A. throughout except MS, AL, GA, FL. | |
| Abundance | Fairly common in the Mountains (more numerous in the northern counties), very rare to rare elsewhere. | |
| Habitat | Roadsides, fields, meadows, lawn weed, waste ground, edge of parking lot. | |
| Phenology | Flowering and fruiting June-August. | |
| Identification | Wild Parsnip can potentially grow to 6 feet tall, but usually half that. The lower leaves are divided into roughly 9 ovate or narrowly ovate, toothed segments. Middle and upper leaves are smaller and fewer-lobed. The umbels are terminal and axillary, the flowers yellow, the fruits flattened and winged. It should present no identification problems owing to a combination of somewhat robust size, pinnately arranged leaflets, and yellow umbels. | |
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| State Rank | SE | |
| Global Rank | GNR | |
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