View source for Pastinaca sativa

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<h3>Parsnip </h3><em>Pastinaca sativa </em>
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    <li>ANPC Rank – <strong></strong></li>
    <li>Moss, Flora of Alberta – <strong>Occasional</strong></li>
    <li>Global Invasive Species Database – <strong>No</strong></li>
    <li>NatureServe Rank – <strong>Low</strong></li>

    <li>Haber, Upland – <strong>No</strong></li>
    <li>Haber, Wetland – <strong>No</strong></li>
    <li>CWF, Status &amp; Invasive Range – <strong>Low, BC</strong></li>
    <li>Alberta Revegetation Guidelines – <strong>No</strong></li>
    <li>The Nature Conservancy – <strong>Yes, w/ ESA</strong></li>

    <li>CBCN – <strong>No</strong></li>
    <li>AB Weed – <strong>No</strong></li>
</ul>
<h3>Remarks</h3>
Not reported as a problem in Alberta, but does occur here and is a problem in the US. Other plants in the same family appear quite similar.


[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parsnip] '''Link to Wikipedia''', ''Pastinaca sativa'' - "...The parsnip is native to Eurasia. It has been used as a vegetable since antiquity and was cultivated by the Romans, although there is some confusion in the literature of the time between parsnips and carrots. It was used as a sweetener before the arrival in Europe of cane sugar. It was introduced into the United States in the nineteenth century..."


[http://plants.usda.gov/core/profile?symbol=PASA2]Link to '''USDA Plants''' profile for ''Pastinaca sativa'' L., wild parsnip


[http://wiki.bugwood.org/Pastinaca_sativa]Link to '''Bugwood''' profile for ''Pastinaca_sativa'' - "...Found in open places along roadsides and in waste places throughout the northern United States and Canada, from British Columbia to California and Vermont south to Florida. It endures a wide range of edaphic conditions, usually dry to mesic soils, but occasionally will be found in wet meadows. Grows best on calcareous, alkaline soils..."


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