Common hedge parsley
Torilis arvensis (Huds.) Link
- light
- Full sun
- water
- —
- tall
- 61 cm
- wide
- 23 cm
Apiaceae
Also called Sock bane, Spreading hedge-parsley, Spreading hedge parsley, Tall sock-destroyer, Hedge Parsley
Formerly Anthriscus arvensis, Caucalis arvensis
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
- AnnualKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- TemperateKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- Europe to C. Asia and Pakistan, Macaronesia, N. Africa to Arabian Pen.Kew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun (6 h or more)Read from NC State Extension, one source
- Height
- 30 cm to 91 cmRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Spread
- 15 cm to 30 cmRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Flowers
- White, pinkRead from NC State Extension and Wikipedia, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources
Not known yet: water, coldest it survives, heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (12)
- French
- Torilis des champs, torilis des moissons
- Czech
- tořice rolní
- German
- Feld-Borstendolde, Acker-Klettenkerbel, Feld-Klettenkerbel
- Russian
- Цепкоплодник полевой, Пупырник полевой
- Catalan
- Julivert bord
- Italian
- Lappolina canaria
- Portuguese
- Salsinha
- Greek
- Τοριλίδα η Αρουραία, Τοριλίς η Αρουραία
- Dutch
- Akkerdoornzaad, akkerdoornzaad
- Swedish
- åkerkörvel
- Danish
- Mark-Randfrø
- Afrikaans
- Veldpietersielie
Where this comes from
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-26, CC0-1.0 (observation counts)
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- NC State Extension, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikipedia, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, Public domain
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-26, CC BY-SA
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-26, CC0
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-26, CC BY
- 3D model: Torilis arvensis (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.