Selinum carvifolia
Selinum carvifolia is a flowering plant of the genus Selinum in the family Apiaceae. It is a plant of fens and damp meadows, growing in most of Europe, with the exception of much of the Mediterranean region, eastwards to Central Asia. Its common name in English is Cambridge Milk Parsley, because it is confined, in the U.K., to the county of Cambridgeshire and bears some similarity in appearance to Milk Parsley (Peucedanum palustre), an umbellifer of another genus, but found in similar moist habitats. S. carvifolia used also to occur in the English counties of Nottinghamshire and Lincolnshire but is now extinct in both.[1] It is naturalized in the United States, where it is known by the common name little-leaf angelica.[2]
Milk Parsley grows in the Norfolk Broads area of East Anglia, where it is the natural habitat and breeding choice for the Swallowtail Butterfly, which lays eggs on it, and when hatched the caterpillars feed on the flowering heads, then make their Chrysalis on it also. It is considered an endangered species. Milk Parsley only grows on marshy ground as it likes very damp conditions.
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