Anethum

• Authority

  Britton, Nathaniel L. & Millspaugh, Charles F. 1920. The Bahama Flora.

• Family

  Apiaceae

• Scientific Name

  Anethum

• Description

  Description - Erect, mostly annual, glabrous herbs, with decompound leaves and small yellow flowers in many-rayed compound umbels. Involucre and involucels none, or of very few bracts. Calyx teeth obsolete. Petals suborbicular. Stylopodium small, conic. Fruit elliptic or ovate, flat, margined; carpel-ribs slender; oil-tubes solitary in the intervals. [Greek, like anise.] A few European and Asiatic species, the following typical.