Wild parsnip
ಪಾರ್ಸ್ನಿಪ್পার্সনিপ
Pastinaca sativa L.
- light
- Full sun
- water
- Medium
- tall
- 99 cm
- wide
- 30 cm
Apiaceae
Also called Parsnip, Poison parsnip, Wild Parsnip
Formerly Elaphoboscum sativum, Peucedanum sativum
When it flowers
Not known yet in the tropics: too few flowering observations to read a season from.
Read from iNaturalist photographs of it in flower. A month counts at 50% of the best month's flowering share (smoothed over three months) and 10% of its flowering count, from at least 100 flowering observations in the band.
If a child, a pet or anyone may have eaten a plant, contact a doctor or vet straight away, or call the National Poisons Information Centre (AIIMS, New Delhi) on 1800 116 117, free and open 24 hours.
Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- BiennialKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- TemperateKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- Europe to C. Siberia and LebanonKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun (6 h or more)Read from NC State Extension, one source
- Height
- 99 cmRead from Plants for a Future, one source
- Spread
- 30 cmRead from Plants for a Future, one source
- Water
- Average: moist, well drainedRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Flowers
- YellowRead from NC State Extension and Wikipedia, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources
- Coldest it survives
- -34.4 °C (USDA zone 4a)Read from Plants for a Future, one source
Not known yet: heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (12)
- Spanish
- chirivía
- root
- k'ómho, "panais sauvage, panais, panais commun, panais potager, carotte blanche", Таримал цоор
- French
- panais
- Russian
- Пастернак посевной
- German
- Pastinak, Gewöhnlicher Pastinak
- Czech
- pastinák setý
- Danish
- Almindelig Pastinak, Pastinak, Vild pastinak
- Lithuanian
- Paprastasis pastarnokas
- Greek
- Παστινάκα η εδώδιμη, Παστινάκι
- Norwegian Bokmål
- pastinakk
- Italian
- Pastinaca comune
- Finnish
- euroopanpalsternakka, palsternakka
Where this comes from
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-26, CC0-1.0 (observation counts)
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-26, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- NC State Extension, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Plants for a Future, read 2026-10-26, fact, cited
- Wikipedia, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA 3.0
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-26, CC BY-SA
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-26, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-26, CC BY-SA
- 3D model: Pastinaca sativa (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
A fact “checked by a majority of its sources” was settled by a vote of the pages it was read from, not by a person reading it; one marked “one source” rests on that page alone. Anything else not marked checked has not been checked yet. Where nothing is known, the page says so rather than guess.