Sweet Cicely (Myrrhis odorata)
Medium/tall, slightly hairy, stems often purple. Leaves, sometimes tinged whitish, made up of sub-divided leaflets (similar in appearance to a fern). Flowers white, in an umbrella-shaped cluster; April-June. Fruit long, oblong, beaked, aromatic when crushed.

Can be found at far end of far meadow - especially in autumn when its long seed-pods are present.

Spotters' score: 7

ref: p.166/1c

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