Chervil is an annual plant cultivated in many places as a kitchen
spice. The round, finely grooved, branched stem grows 12 to 26 inches
high from a thin, whitish root. The leaves are opposite, light green,
and bipinnate, the lower leaves petioled, the upper sessile on stem
sheaths. The small, white flowers grow from May to July. The elongated,
segmented seeds ripen in August and September.
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