APIACEAE (UMBELLIFERAE)

Carroty Caraway

 

 

10-20 flowers producing egg-shaped, 4-5mm long fruits. 

 

Perennial herb with a stout taproot, leaves 1-9cm long and 0.5-3cm wide, leaflets lobed or divided. Leaves arranged in a basal rosette and sometimes erect, leafy branches. 

Break O'Day; Central Highlands; Circular Head; Derwent Valley; Glenorchy; Huon Valley; Kentish; Meander Valley; Northern Midlands; West Coast 

 

Tasmanian endemic. Local on mountain summits on the northern and western Central Plateau. 

 

Hardy 

 

Propagate from seed. Characteristic smell, similar to carrot. From the same family as parsley, fennel, dill, coriander, cumin and caraway. Good for growing in spaces between native grass and sedge tussocks, can be added to stirfries. Suitable below powerlines.