Apium graveolens

Celery, Celery

Family: Apiaceae · Type: perennial · Not Native

Celery is a naturalized perennial found in wet places throughout California at elevations generally below 1,000 meters. Flowering from May to July, this plant produces small white flowers in delicate umbels with 7 to 16 rays. Growing 50 to 150 centimeters tall with upright stems that do not root at the nodes, it develops a robust, branching structure. Its compound leaves feature 2 to 4 leaflets, each 2 to 4.5 centimeters long, with ovate to rounded shapes often showing slight lobing. The fruit is small, approximately 1.5 to 2 millimeters in diameter, with an elliptical to nearly round shape.

Habitat: Wet places

Bloom period: May-Jul

Elevation: generally < 1000 m

Bioregions: CA

California counties: Ventura, San Diego, San Bernardino, Riverside, Orange, Santa Barbara, Los Angeles, Kern, Santa Clara, Merced, Sonoma, Monterey, Mono, Inyo, San Luis Obispo, Santa Cruz, Contra Costa, Butte, Solano, Tuolumne, Napa, Alameda, Humboldt, San Francisco, Imperial

Data from The California Species Project — 14,000+ California species with verified data from CNPS, CDFW, USFWS, Jepson eFlora, Cal-IPC, and more.