"K" wrote in message
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"Rupert (W.Yorkshire)" writes
I have a plant that has ferny foliage and a cow parsley type pink flower.
It is now seeding and the seeds taste of aniseed. This thing forms a large
evergreen clump even during frosts and springs to life early in the year
(spring)
I have always thought this was Chervil but someone has told me that
chervil
is an annual and does not overwinter.
Could it be some other culinary herb?


My first reaction was that I couldn't think offhand of an umbellifer with
pink flowers, but looking it up gives Hogweed, Hedge Parsley, Greater
Burnet Saxifrage, Coriander, Cumin, Corky fruited/tubular Water Dropworts,
Sulphurwort as having flowers which are sometimes pink.

Can you produce two good closeup pics, one of the leaf, another of the
flower, showing clearly any green spiky bits at the back of either the
main umbel or the little mini-umbels? Description of stem (colour, shape
and hairiness) and fruit would also help.

Umbelliferae is not a family to mess with unless you are sure of the
identification.

--
Kay

Thanks
I will eventually post a few pics when it next flowers and I have my new
camera. Googling those possibilities you gave, may give me a clue.