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Anethum graveolens

L. (1753)

This name is accepted

Kingdom: Viridiplantae Phylum: Magnoliophyta Class/Clade: Eudicot-Asterids Order: Apiales Family: Apiaceae Genus: Anethum

dill, dill weed

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Description

Key Characters:

Growth Form: Annual herb; slender, 4–17 dm tall.

Stems: Caulescent, branched, glabrous and glaucous.

Roots: Taprooted.

Leaves: Leaves compound (pinnately decompound). Alternate. Blades oblong to obovate, 1.3–3.5 dm long, 1–1.2 dm wide. the ultimate divisions of the blade filiform, 4–20 mm long, less than 0.5 mm wide. Surfaces glabrous. Margins 3–4-pinnately dissected. Petioles 5–6 cm long, narrowly sheathing. Stipules absent.

Flowers: Flowers in peduncles 7–16 cm long, rays 10–45, spreading-ascending, 3–10 cm long, subequal to unequal. Flowers bisexual (perfect); pedicels 6–10 mm long, subequal. Calyx (sepals) absent. Corolla of 5 petals; petals yellow, suborbicular, with a narrower inflexed apex. Stamens 5, inserted on an epigynous disk. Ovary inferior, 2-celled; ovules 1 per cells, anatropous; styles 2, usually swollen at base into a stylopodium. Styles short, the stylopodium conical, carpophore 2–parted.

Fruit: Fruit ovate; ca. 4 mm long; 2 mm wide; flattened dorsally; mericarps flattened dorsally; glabrous; ribs 5; the dorsal ones filiform; the lateral ones thin–winged; vittae solitary in the intervals; 2–4 on the commissure. Seeds 1 per mericarp; embryo small; endosperm cartilaginous. seed face plane or slightly concave.

Ploidy: 2n = 22

Habitat:

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Historical Distribution

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Uses and Culture

USES

  • Yes

Natural History

Statewide Status

Only found in cultivation

Island Status

Kuaihelani (Midway Atoll) Only found in cultivation
Kaua'i Only found in cultivation
O'ahu Only found in cultivation
Molokai Only found in cultivation
Maui Unknown

Dispersal Agents


Pollinators

Notes

  • Description digitized by Pumehana Imada
  • Native to Eurasia; in Hawai‘i cultivated and occasionally escaped in waste places. Introduced early in the 1800s and naturalized prior to 1871 (Hillebrand, 1888).

Bibliography

Name Published In: Sp. Pl.: 263 (1753)

Other References

Wagner et al. 1990:200 (O, M? [reported by Hillebrand (1888) but no spm.]); Starr et al. 2002:17 (Mi? [spreading in garden plot, not truly nat.]); Staples & Herbst 2005:112 (KEY), 113 (DESCR)

Wagner, W. L., Herbst, D. R., & Sohmer, S. H. (1999). Manual of the Flowering Plants of Hawai'i, Vols. 1 and 2 (No. Edn 2). University of Hawai'i and Bishop Museum Press.

Occurrences

SNo. Scientific Name Locality Habitat Basis of Record Recorded By Record Number Island Source Date
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