Pastinaca Characteristics plants puberulent or glabrous foliage not spiny foliage not digitately compound both lower and upper leaves compound leaves simple or divided into a few well-defined leaflets; not having leaves much divided into numerous segments or leaflets leaves once pinnately divided leaves with more than 3 leaflets leaflets less than 5 cm wide leaflets ovate to oblong inflorescence not bluish flowers yellow fruit not spiny fruit oblong to elliptical fruit less than 3 times as long as broad fruit flattened dorsally, some of the ribs (at least the lateral) or all of them winged

 

Umbelliferae Characteristics herbs plants terrestrial or semi-aquatic; leaves not submerged or floating plants not with colored milky juice stems hollow plants with more than 1 leaf leaves without stipules, or having glands some or all leaves alternate flowers with 2 floral rings, and with each petal distinct from the others flowers in umbels parts of flowers mostly in fives calyx regular 5 stamens alternating with the petals 2 styles ovary inferior, flowers epigynous ovules and seeds 1 in each locule fruit dry, splitting at maturity