This perennial to biennial herb has a stout erect stems that form a bushy habit and has a strong taproot. It has light green edible feathery leaves and the tiny yellow flowers appear in a flattened cluster on a tall stem above the foliage during summer.

Hardiness zones 5 to 10

Foeniculum vulgareIt is naturally found in Europe growing in meadows and along roadsides in disturbed soils. It prefers a well drained, fertile moist light soil in an open sunny position and is frost and drought tender.

Fennel is a graceful perennial that is grown as a culinary herb in cottage gardens or in containers. It has many culinary uses and the young shoots, roots, leaves and seeds have an aniseed-flavour that has been used for hundreds of years. It is not commonly cultivated as an ornamental plant and in warmer regions it is regarded as a weed and invades water courses or disturbed land and is spread by seed.ID 873

Foeniculum(fee-NIK-ew-lum) vulgare(vul-GAH-ree)

Apiaceae (ay-pee-AY-see-ee)
(Umbelliferae)
Carrot family