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Ammi majus
(False Queen Anne's Lace)

Family - Apiaceae
Category - Annual, biennial
Origin - Southern Europe, Turkey, North Africa
Season of Interest - Summer
Hardiness - H6
Height - 90cm or more
Width - 30cm

Description: An annual plant, sometimes treated as a Biennial with an upright habit. Bright green, fern-like leaves are bipinnate or tripinnate with ovate to lanceolate leaflets. Many small white flowers are held in large lace-like, branched umbels atop upright stems through the summer. Excellent for use as cut flowers and attractive to pollinating insects.

Award of Garden Merit (AGM).

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Flower:

Many, small white flowers are held in large, compound, lace-like umbels. The flowerheads are held atop upright stems and are produced in abundance from June into August.

Flower colour: White

Flower shape: Compound umbel

Flowering time: June, July, August

Foliage:

Bright green fern-like leaves are bipinnate or tripinnate and have ovate to lanceolate leaflets.

Foliage Senescence: Deciduous

Foliage Shape: Bipinnate or tripinnate with ovate to lanceolate leaflets

Poison Information:

Contact with the sap may cause skin irritation.

Propagation:

Seed.

Cultivation:

Best in full sun to partial shade in fertile, moisture-retentive soil that is well-drained.