Wild Parsnip

A bit of hoarfrost and everything changes.

Dead umbels of Wild Parsnip (Pastinaca sativa) with still some fruits. This perennial plant can grow a metre or more. The roots survive in the soil, the plant grows and flowers in summer, and leaves and stems die in autumn.

Early in autumn the green-yellow color of the plant is still visible.

Like many other Umbellifer flowers, the small yellow flowers of Wild Parsnip are visited by black-and-red striped pyama bugs.