Pepper saxifrage

Description

Silaum silaus, commonly known as pepper-saxifrage, is a perennial plant in the family Apiaceae Umbelliferae the carrot family found across south-eastern, Central and Western Europe, including the British Isles. It grows in damp grasslands on neutral soils.Silaum silaus is an erect, glabrous umbellifer with woody, stout and cylindrical tap roots, which are hot and aromatic. S. silaus has dark grey or black petioles at the top; petiole remains are found at the bottom of the stem, which is solid and striate.Its umbels are 2–6 cm in diameter, are terminal or axillary, and compound, with 4 to 15 angled rays of 1–3 cm; the peduncle is larger than the rays, and both are papillose. The flowers are mostly hermaphroditic