The parsnip (Pastinaca sativa) is a root vegetable closely related to the carrot and parsley. It is a biennial plant usually grown as an annual. Its long, tuberous root has cream-colored skin and flesh; and left in the ground to mature, it becomes sweeter in flavor after winter frosts. In its first growing season, the plant has a rosette of pinnate, mid-green leaves. If unharvested, it produces its flowering stem, topped by an umbel of small...
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Celery-like symmetrical leaflets. Deep vertical grooves on stem. Tall, yellow, flat umbel flower clusters. Leaves consist of 2 to 5 leaflet
pairs and one on the end. Grow to 1.5 m (4.9 ft).
Native lookalike: Cow Parsnip (white flowers) https://inaturalist.ca/taxa/53094-Heracleum-maximum