Cicely (Myrrhis odorata) is a plant belonging to the Apiaceae, or parsley, family. Its leaves is sometimes used as a herb, with a rather strong taste reminiscent to licorice or anise. Like its relatives, anise, fennel and caraway, it can also be used to flavour aquavit. Its essential oils are dominated by anethole. Divisions Green algae Land plants (embryophytes) Non-vascular embryophytes Hepatophyta - liverworts Anthocerophyta - hornworts Bryophyta - mosses Vascular plants (tracheophytes) Seedless vascular plants Lycopodiophyta - clubmosses Equisetophyta - horsetails Pteridophyta - true ferns Psilotophyta - whisk ferns Ophioglossophyta - adderstongues Seed plants (spermatophytes) †Pteridospermatophyta - seed ferns Pinophyta - conifers Cycadophyta - cycads Ginkgophyta - ginkgo Gnetophyta - gnetae Magnoliophyta - flowering plants... Genera See text Ref: Hortiplex 2003-11-14 The Apiaceae, the carrot or parsley family, are a family of usually aromatic plants with hollow stems, including parsley, carrot, and other relatives. ... Species Parsley (Petroselinum crispum)is a bright green, biennial herb that is very common in Middle Eastern, European, and American cooking. ... Scientific classification or biological classification refers to how biologists group and categorize extinct and living species of organisms. ... A herb (pronounced urb in American English and hurb in British English) is a plant grown for culinary or medicinal value. ... Species Glycyrrhiza acanthocarpa Glycyrrhiza aspera Glycyrrhiza astragalina Glycyrrhiza bucharica Glycyrrhiza echinata Glycyrrhiza eurycarpa Glycyrrhiza foetida Glycyrrhiza glabra Glycyrrhiza iconica Glycyrrhiza korshinskyi Glycyrrhiza lepidota Glycyrrhiza pallidiflora Glycyrrhiza triphylla Glycyrrhiza uralensis Glycyrrhiza yunnanensis Ref: ILDIS Version 6. ... Binomial name Pimpinella anisum L. Anise (stressed on the first syllable, rhyming with Janice), or more rarely anís (stressed on the second syllable, as a niece) (Pimpinella anisum) is an herb in the family Apiaceae (formerly Umbelliferae) whose seed-like fruit (also called aniseed) is used in sweet baking... Binomial name Foeniculum vulgare P. Mill. ... Caraway seeds Caraway or Persian cumin (Carum carvi) is a plant that belongs to the Apiaceae, or parsley, family. ... Akvavit, also known as aquavit, is a Scandinavian distilled beverage of typically about 40% alcohol by volume. ... Anethole Anethole (or trans-anethole) is an aromatic compound that accounts for the distinctive licorice flavor of anise, fennel, and star anise. ...

The plant is originally from Western Europe and is rather common in Scandinavia. Western Europe is distinguished from Eastern Europe by differences of history and culture rather than by geography. ... Scandinavia, Fennoscandia, and the Kola Peninsula. ...

External links

• Cicely (http://www.uni-graz.at/~katzer/engl/Myrr_odo.html) - Gernot Katzer's Spice Pages.