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Alexanders
Smyrnium olusatrum
Smyrnium olusatrum, common name Alexanders, is an edible cultivated flowering plant, belonging to the family Apiaceae (or Umbelliferae). It is also known as alisanders, horse parsley, and smyrnium. It was known to Theophrastus (9.1) and Pliny the Elder (N.H. 19.48).
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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In the old herbals & bestiaries
Notable Commentaries on the History of Plants
Leonhart Fuchs · 1542 · p.361
Notable Commentaries on the History of Plants
Leonhart Fuchs · 1549 · p.792
Notable Commentaries on the History of Plants
Leonhart Fuchs · 1549 · p.359
Commentaries on the Six Books of Dioscorides
Pietro Andrea Mattioli · 1560 · p.550
Commentaries on the Six Books of Dioscorides on Medical Matter
Pietro Andrea Mattioli · 1563 · p.507
A New Herbal, or History of Plants
Rembert Dodoens (trans. Henry Lyte) · 1578 · p.638
Six Groups of the History of Plants
Rembert Dodoens · 1583 · p.707
Description of Less Known and Rare Plants
Fabio Colonna · 1616 · p.463
In the stacks
Searching the stacks…
Every page naming Smyrnium olusatrum in the Biodiversity Heritage Library →
This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 68007.