Caraway has compound leaves, finely divided and almost fernlike. It bears white flowers in an umbrella-shaped cluster, flat-topped and compound. Florets are tightly packed. Seeds are flattened, less than twice as long as wide, smooth but ribbed. The ribs are narrower than the space between them.

Common throughout

Medicinal: see link

Tea: infusion of 2 teaspoons of seeds in boiling water

Identity must be certain: see cowbane and poison hemlock; caraway's leaves are finer in their divisions and not as regular as the toxic plants of similar habitat