Fennel (Foeniculum Vulgare) is an herbaceous plant up to 150-200 cm high with a low-branched, stem root. The stem is up straight, rounded, and highly branched with a bluish bloom. The leaves are alternate, ovoid-triangular in shape. The lower leaves are large, petiolate, the rest are sessile. The flowers are yellowish, small, have five petals, collected at the top of the stem into complex umbrellas. The fruit is an oblong, greenish-brown naked ovocarp, decaying into two half-fruits. It blooms from July to September; the fruits ripen in September-October.