Celery Family: APIACEAE (ROSIDAE) in Australia
including Daucaceae, Ferulaceae, Saniculaceae and Umbelliferae.

Flower Families

Don Herbison-Evans, (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) & Christine Ashe

Plant Classes

Actinotus helianthi Flannel Flower The Entrance, NSW, October 2007	Actinotus minor Lesser Flannel Flower Wyee, August 2009	Ammi majus Queen Anne's Lace Wyee, October 2008	Anethum graveolens Dill Wonboyn, NSW Photo: courtesy of Paul Whitington
Angelica pachycarpa Angelica Wyee, August 2007	Apium graveolens Celery Burwood, August 2006	Apium rapaceum Celeriac Burwood, August 2006	Centella asiatica Gotu Kola Wyee, December 2007
Conium maculatum Hemlock Nicholls Rivulet, Tasmania Photo: courtesy of Elaine McDonald	Coriandrum sativum Coriander Wonboyn, NSW Photo: courtesy of Paul Whitington	Cyclospermum leptophyllum Wild Carrot Concord, October 2008	Daucus sativa var. imperator Carrots Concord, October 2006
Foeniculum vulgare Fennel Wyee, November 2007	Hydrocotyle bonariensis Large Leaf Pennywort Sydney, December 2007	Hydrocotyle laxiflora Stinking Pennywort Wyee, December 2007	Pastinaca sativa Parsnip Sydney, August 2006

Petroselinum crispum Parsley Burwood, August 2006

Petroselinum crispum var. neapolitanum Italian Parsley Wonboyn, NSW Photo: courtesy of Paul Whitington

Platysace ericoides Heath Platysace Wyee, September 2008

Xanthosia rotundifolia Southern Cross Perth, October 2007

Some moths in Australia have caterpillars that regularly feed on plants in APIACEAE, including:

Thysanoplusia orichalcea

Zonoplusia ochreata

Merophyas divulsana

Hellula hydralis

Agonopterix alstromeriana

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Australian butterflies

Australian Lepidoptera

Australian moths

(updated 3 January 2013, 30 October 2017, 29 December 2019)