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Pronunciation: fee-NIK-yoo-lum vul-GARE-ee
Common name: Sweet fennel
Family: Apieaceae (Carrot)
Habitat: Common on dry slopes and ridges, in openings in chaparral, by the sides of roads, trails and streambeds, and in fields and waste places below about 1000', widespread and abundant throughout the California Floristic Province, native to southern Europe
Blooming period: May to September
Name derivations: 1) Foeniculum 2) vulgare