Carrot family
Umbelliferae
Kair'um. A genus of about 30 species of Old World temperate zone herbs.
Description
Leaves mostly basal, much compounded into tiny segments. Flowers minute, white, in small umbels that are grouped in larger umbels. Fruit dry and seedlike.
How to Grow
To reap a good harvest of the edible seeds, start caraway early in the season as soon as the danger of frost is past. Prefers cool weather.
Carum Carvi
Caraway
. 1-2 ft. (30-60 cm) high. Leaves so finely divided that the ultimate segments are threadlike. Flowers white, in clusters, to 1 ƈ in. (3 cm) wide. Fruit strongly ribbed. Eurasia. Biennial grown as a hardy annual.




