Pimpinella

There are around 150 species of these annual and perennial plants that are found in Europe, Asia and Northern Africa as well as Southern America. Only a few species are generally available and these are modest, often quietly attractive plants that are generally suited to more informal plantings, perhaps in a wild garden or flower meadow. They have branching heads of white flowers in rounded clusters, a common model for plants that are known as 'Umbellifers'. One form Pimpinella major 'Rosea' is seen in ornamental borders, valued for its domed heads of soft pink blooms.