Hedge Parsley - Torilis

Above: Hedge Parsley in the Thoreau Rain Garden in Madison, Wisconsin on May 16, 2022.

Hedge Parsley - Torilis (Invasive/Eradicate)

All Torilis parsley have been introduced in Wisconsin and are considered invasive.

This is a wispy plant (in the carrot family) with 5-parted, white/pink flowers in small, loose, compound umbels. The leaves help to identify it. The leaves are alternate, compound, fern-like, 2-5 inches long and slightly hairy.

Habit include waste ground, disturbed sites, thickets, roadsides, railroads.

Spreading Hedge parsley (Torilis arvensis) and Erect hedgeparsley (Torilis japonica) are both very similar. One difference is that Torilis japonica has 2 or more pointed bracts at the base of each umbel, otherwise the two plants are very much the same.

Other names (Torilis arvensis) include: Spreading Hedge parsley, Canada hedgeparsley, hedgeparsley.

Other names (Torilis japonica) include: Erect hedgeparsley, Upright hedgeparsley, Japanese Hedge Parsley,

Blooms: July - August.

Above: Hedge Parsley leaf in Madison, Wisconsin on July 17, 2022.

For more information on Spreading Hedge Parsley (Torilis arvensis), visit Wikipedia.

For more information on Erect Hedge Parsley (Torilis japonica), visit Wikipedia.

Or, visit the UW-Madison Wisconsin State Herbarium website page about Erect Hedge Parsley - Torilis japonica.

Or, visit the Wisconsin DNR website page about Speading Hedge Parsley - Torilis arvensis.

Or, visit the Wisconsin DNR website page about Erect Hedge Parsley - Torilis japonica.

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