"Squeezeweasel" wrote in message
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Rupert (W.Yorkshire) wrote:
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?

It might be yarrow, which isn't really used as a culinary herb any
more, but used to be - it was also used as a toothache remedy. It
certainly fits the flower/foliage description, and it's a perennial.
There is a pink variety, which we have in our garden.

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Thanks for the suggestion but it's not Yarrow. The stems are fairly soft
unlike yarrow which tends to be more woody.

Squeezeweasel wrote:
It might be yarrow, which isn't really used as a culinary herb any
more, but used to be - it was also used as a toothache remedy. It
certainly fits the flower/foliage description, and it's a perennial.
There is a pink variety, which we have in our garden.

I'm stuck with the identification of an embelifarea too. My problem are
the leaves. They are long and thin, not fern like the others I know.
Impossible to find what it is and yes I washed my hands very well
afterwards. I don't have a picture here, but will get one of it
tomorrow. Do you think what it may be? White flowers, like cow parsley,
or angelica, not flat head like yarrow and long leaves, not fern.