Parsley
ಅಜಮೋದअजमोदவோக்கோசு
Petroselinum crispum (Mill.) Fuss
- light
- Full sun
- water
- Medium
- tall
- 56 cm
- wide
- 25 cm
Apiaceae
Formerly Apium crispum
When it flowers
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Not known yet in the tropics: too few flowering observations to read a season from.
PetsNC State Extension lists it as toxic to dogs, cats and horses (28 Oct 2026)
PeopleNC State Extension lists it as mildly poisonous (25 Oct 2026)
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
- Biennial or perennialKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- TemperateKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- NW. Africa, Balkan Pen.Kew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun (6 h or more)Read from NC State Extension, one source
- Height
- 20 cm to 91 cmRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Spread
- 20 cm to 30 cmRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Water
- Average: moist, well drainedRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Flowers
- Yellow, greenRead from NC State Extension, one source
Not known yet: coldest it survives, heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (12)
- French
- persil
- Portuguese
- salsa, salsinha
- Asturian
- perexil, perrexil, perrexu
- Czech
- petržel obecná
- Welsh
- persli
- Dutch
- Peterselie
- Slovenian
- pravi peteršilj
- Chinese
- 欧芹, 野芹菜子
- Simplified Chinese
- 欧芹
- Hindi
- अजमोद
- Tamil
- வோக்கோசு
- Kannada
- ಅಜಮೋದ
Where this comes from
- 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
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, Public domain
- 3D model: Petroselinum crispum (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.