Chaerophyllum aureum
Chaerophyllum aureum
Sarılakotu
Almost glabrous to shortly pilose perennial with branched terete or angled, often spotted stems to c. 90 cm. Lower leaves broad-ovate to triangular, 2-3-pinnate, 15-30 x 9-20 cm, ultimate segments ovate, elliptic or broadly lanceolate, acutely lobed, lobes crenate or sharply serrate. Rays 15-25, unequal, 1,5-5 cm ± erect in fruit. Bracts 0-1. Bracteoles 5-7, lanceolate, ciliate, 3-6 x 1 mm. Pedicels shorter than fruit. Fertile flowers 5-8 per umbellule. Fruit oblong to ovate-oblong, 7-10 x c. 3 mm, pale brown when mature. Fl. 6-8. Rocky slopes in Picea-Rhododendron scrub, open grassy meadows, 1000-2300 m.
W., S. & C. Europe, Caucasia, N. Iran.
