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Skirret
Sium sisarum
Sium sisarum, commonly known as skirret, is a perennial plant of the family Apiaceae sometimes grown as a root vegetable. The English name skirret is derived from the Middle English 'skirwhit' or 'skirwort', meaning 'white root'. In Scotland it is known as crummock. Its Danish name sukkerrod, Dutch name suikerwortel and German name "Zuckerwurzel" translate as 'sugar root'.
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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In the old herbals & bestiaries
Commentaries on the Six Books of Dioscorides
Pietro Andrea Mattioli · 1560 · p.388
Ortus sanitatis
1491 · p.420
Notable Commentaries on the History of Plants
Leonhart Fuchs · 1542 · p.786
Notable Commentaries on the History of Plants
Leonhart Fuchs · 1549 · p.784
Notable Commentaries on the History of Plants
Leonhart Fuchs · 1549 · p.783
On Medical Materials in Six Books
Dioscorides · 1550 · p.271
On the Names of Plants
Hieronymus Bock (Tragus) · 1552 · p.984
Six Groups of the History of Plants
Rembert Dodoens · 1583 · p.691
Plant Touchstone (Phytobasanos)
Fabio Colonna · 1592 · p.104
In the stacks
Searching the stacks…
Every page naming Sium sisarum in the Biodiversity Heritage Library →
This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 360193.