Apium L.
(fool’s water-cresses, marshworts & celeries)

Subtaxon Example images Rank Featured
subtaxa		 No of
images		 No of
ID refs
Apium inundatum
Lesser Marshwort
Plant (Click to open)
 		Species 2 images
Apium nodiflorum
Fool’s Water-cress, Fool’s-water-cress
(Click to open)
 		Species 16 images
Apium repens
Creeping Marshwort
Species 2 ident. refs
Taxonomic hierarchy:
GenusApium (fool’s water-cresses, marshworts & celeries)
FamilyAPIACEAE (umbellifers)
OrderAPIALES (umbellifers, ivies and pennyworts)
SubclassEU-DICOTS (dicotyledonous flowering plants)
ClassMAGNOLIOPSIDA (flowering plants)
PhylumTRACHEOPHYTA (vascular plants)
KingdomPLANTAE (plants)
DomainEukaryota (eukaryotes)
LifeBIOTA (living things)

Identification Works

AuthorYearTitleSource
Lambrick, C.R. Apium Yeo, P.F. Acaena, taxa with spherical heads, Plant Crib 2012
() Lansdown R.V. & Pankhurst T.J. Field Guide to the Identification of Difficult Aquatic Plants of the New Forest

Apium (fool’s water-cresses, marshworts & celeries) may also be included in identification literature listed under the following higher taxa:

NBNNBN (data.nbn.org.uk) has a distribution map for Apium (fool’s water-cresses, marshworts & celeries)
BioInfoBioInfo (www.bioinfo.org.uk) has 49 host/parasite/foodplant and/or other relationships for Apium (fool’s water-cresses, marshworts & celeries)
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