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Wonky vegetables and fruit including potatoes, onions, carrots, and apples. Illustration from The Hidden Universe: Adventures in Biodiversity by Alexandre Antonelli

Alexanders Smyrnium olusatrum with Puccinia smyrnii rust on some leaves, and detail of one flower and one seed.

Cow Parsley sketchbook study sheet.  Detail of seed head, flowers, and leaves and roots are shown.

Cow Parsley sketchbook study sheet with written notes.  Detail of seed head, flowers, and leaves and roots are shown.

Habit sketch of Cow parsley Anthriscus sylvatica with hollow stem & leaf attachment detail

Cow parsley Anthriscus sylvaticus Habit sketch showing entire plant.

Wild Parsnip Pastinaca sativa sketchbook study.  Illustration shows comparison with the cultivated parsnip plant, Pastinaca sativa sativa.  It also includes details on the petiole, flower, umbel, seed head, seeds, and root.

Ground elder Aegopodium podagraria showing individual seed and flower as well as spreading roots

Giant Hogweed Heracelum mantegazianum sketchbook studies showing detail of leaves, stem, and seeds.

Persian Hogweed Heracelum persicum and Giant Hogweed Heracelum mantegazzianum comparison with info on flower shape, umbel shape, and leaf differences

Giant Hogweed Heracleum mantegazzianum habit drawing

Persian Hogweed Heracleum persicum sketchbook study showing rounded curve of flowering head, and convex toothed leaf lobes.

Perfoliate Alexanders Smyrnium perfoliatum

Pignut Conopodium majus with details of flower, root, and shoot

Wild carrot Daucus carota with leaves, flowering head, and distinctive growth habit

Tubular water dropwort Oenanthe fistulosa in amongst grasses with flowering head and seed head, and showing the stem swelling as well as leaves

Sanicle Sanicula europea with flower detail and seeds shown on the plant as well as flowers

Pepper saxifrage Silaum silaus with detail of individual flower

Parsley Petroselinum crispum sprig and sprig with bud

Lesser Water Parsnip Berula erecta with individual flower and fruit

Hemlock Water dropwort Oenanthe crocata with details of the roots, of an individual leaf, and of one flower and one fruit

Hemlock Conium maculatum showing spotted ste, umbels, male flower detail, individual fruit, and the leaves

Giant hogweed Heracleum sphondylium with stem cross section and lots of leaves

Fennel Foeniculum vulgare pencil illustration showing the fennel and the highly branched leaves