Appearance
Garden parsley is a bright green, biennial, plant in temperate climates, or an annual herb in subtropical and tropical areas.Where it grows as a biennial, in the first year, it forms a rosette of tripinnate leaves 10–25 cm long with numerous 1–3 cm leaflets, and a taproot used as a food store over the winter. In the second year, it grows a flowering stem to 75 cm tall with sparser leaves and flat-topped 3–10 cm diameter umbels with numerous 2 mm diameter yellow to yellowish-green flowers. The seeds are ovoid, 2–3 mm long, with prominent style remnants at the apex. One of the compounds of the essential oil is apiol. The plant normally dies after seed maturation.
Naming
The word "parsley" is a merger of the Old English" petersilie" and the Old French "peresil", both derived from Medieval Latin "petrosilium", from Latin "petroselinum", the latinization of the Greek πετροσέλινον, "rock-parsley", from πέτρα, "rock, stone", + σέλινον, "parsley".References:
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