Parsley (Petroselinum crispum) is a biennial or perennial herbaceous plant of the Apiaceae family cultivated for its leaves. In the first year, it forms a rosette of leaves and a thickened root, and in the second year, it forms a flowering stem. The root is tuberous, pivoting, conical, grey outside and white inside. The leaves are glossy, petiolate, pinnately-septate. Leaves and roots have a reduced growth rate in the early stages of vegetation. The flowering stem reaches 1.5 m tall and is fistulous, edged, strongly branched at the base. The flowers are small, hermaphrodite, of varied color. Pollination is entomophilous. The fruit is a pseudo achene of greenish-grey color.