Sea Celery (Apium prostratum)

Family: Apiaceae or Umbelliferae | Edibility: Edible (3/5)

Apium prostratum is a PERENNIAL growing to 0.6 m (2ft). The species is hermaphrodite (has both male and female organs) and is pollinated by Flies. The plant is self-fertile. Suitable for: light (sandy), medium (loamy) and heavy (clay) soils. Suitable pH: mildly acid, neutral and basic (mildly alkaline) soils and can grow in saline soils. It can grow in semi-shade (light woodland). It prefers moist soil.

Edible Parts & Harvest Seasons

Edible Parts: Nuts/Seeds, Leaves, Roots/Tubers

Harvest Seasons: Early Summer, Fall, Late Summer, Spring, Winter

Flavor & Culinary Uses

taste, it is used as a flavouring in soups etc or as a garnish in a similar way to parsley. — Leaves - a salty taste, it is used as a flavouring in soups etc or as a garnish in a similar way to parsley.; The leaves can also be eaten raw but have a very strong flavour.; The stems can be blanched and used like celery, but they are small and fibrous so are not very worthwhile.; No further details.

Habitat & North American Range

Coastal headlands and dunes, margins of brackish swamps and saline stretches of river banks. (Zone 4, Zone 5, Zone 6, Zone 7, Zone 8)