| Scientific Name: | Anethum graveolens |
| Common Name: | dill |
| Family Name: | Apiaceae |
| Origin: | South Asia / India |
| Hardiness Zone: | Zone 7: (-18 to -12 °C) |
| Plant Type: | Annual (true) |
| Mature Size: | 0.4 - 0.7m x 0.3 - 0.6m (height x width) |
| Habit: | Arching, Upright |
| Form: | Oval - vertical |
| Texture: | Fine |
| Landscape Uses: | Attract beneficial insects, Container planting, Herb, Summer interest |
| Exposure: | Full sun, Sheltered |
| Soil or Media: | Humus rich, Well-drained |
| Leaves: | Dissected, Compound, Alternate, Soft flexible, Glabrous, Distinctive smell, Tripinnate, Filiform, Oblong, Obovate, Pectinate |
| Flowers: | Umbel, Yellow, Jul-Aug-Sep |
| Fruit: | Schizocarp, Brown, Aug-Sep |
| Key ID Features: | |
| Stems with vertical ribbing; leaves dill-scented, softly textured, alternate, compound with highly dissected tri-pinnate leaflets formed from a sheathing base, most 10-20cm long x 0.5mm wide; compound umbels 5-15cm wide, each simple umbel with 15-25 yellow flowers on rays 3-5cm long, pedicels 6-10mm long; schizocarps brown, ribbed-winged, ~4mm x 2mm. | |