A genus of plants in the carrot family (Apiaceae) that includes cow parsley and other wild herbaceous plants with finely divided leaves.
From Greek anthriskos, a name used by ancient Greek writers for a plant, possibly derived from anthos 'flower' + diskos 'disk', or from a Pre-Greek source.
Cow parsley is one of those 'weed' plants that transformed European meadows after farming began—it colonizes disturbed ground so successfully that it's now practically synonymous with spring hedgerows. Evolution in real-time!
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