Mock Bishop's Weed (Ptilimnium Capillaceum)
Apiaceae (Parsley Family)
Group: Dicot (Broadleaf)
Annual herb with a small stature native of North America. The foliage is highly fragrant. It is commonly found in wet disturbed habitats, along ditches, roadsides, and sometimes in lawns.
Leaves are compound, alternate, and divided into many finely dissected or small narrow leaflets that are thread-like. Leaves and seed heads are on long stalks.
Stem is erect, branched, slender, 6 to 18 inches tall, being taller than wider, and glabrous.
Flowers are tiny bright white born in compound umbels encircled at the base by threadlike bracts. Fruit is two pitted and ribbed.
Root is a deep taproot.
Propagation is by seed.