In message
, Des
Higgins writes

A member of what used to be call Umbelliferae (named now presumably
changed); it is an umbellifer, probably a wild one. Which one, I
cannot easily tell without seeing leaves or looking at pictures. Common
examples from roadsides and meadows are cow parsely and hedge parsley
(Heracleum and Anthriscus).


Umbelliferae remains accepted, but Apiaceae is commonly preferred.

On the point of vernacular names cow parsley is usually applied to
Anthriscus sylvestris; hedge parsley is any of several species of
Torilis, and Heracleum is hogweed. Cow parsley is in its way over by
now, and the common umbellifers currently flowering are hogweed and
ground elder (Aegopodium podagraria)
--
Stewart Robert Hinsley