Photographs: Askeaton, Co. Limerick

Wild Celery Apium graveolens Smaileog Family: Apiaceae Flowering June - August. Biennial. Native. Short-stalked, terminal umbels of whitish flowers, bracts and bracteoles absent. Ridged, oval fruit. Hollow, grooved stems with once-pinnate, shiny, dark-green basal leaves, the stalks sheathing stems. Narrow, trifoliate upper leaves. Hairless, erect plant, height 30-60cm. Usually coastal on the upper reaches of salt-marshes and on sea walls but also found beside ditches, ponds and rivers

Wild Celery, Apium graveolens, Smaileog