Beaverns

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The beavernella (Pimpinella), also called pimpernella or pimpinella, are a plant genus in the family of the Doldenflower (Apiaceae). The approximately 150 species are mainly distributed in Eurasia and Africa. The most economically important species of the genus is anise.

Name equality
The small meadow button (Sanguisorba minor) used as a kitchen herb is also commonly called Bibernelle or Pimpinelle, but is a species in the family of rose plants (Rosaceae).

Description

Vegetative characteristics
The beavers are enduring, rare annual herbaceous plants. The base leaves are undivided or simply feathered. The leaflets are toothed and sometimes deeply cut.

Generative characteristics
The flowers have a double flower shell. The indistinct chalice rim is out. The white, red and rare yellow crown leaves are wrong-eirund. The stylus ends in an almost headed scar.

The fruit is an egg round slit fruit contracted at the side. The core mass, which is rather flat on the contact surface, is curved in a hump, the free fruit holder (carpophore) is two-column.

Nomenclature and distribution
The genus Pimpinella was established by Carl von Linné.

The approximately 150 species are mainly distributed in Eurasia and Africa. Around 16 species occur in Europe.

The genus Pimpinella comprises about 150 species. Here is a selection:
Pimpinella acuminata (Syn: Pimpinella hazariensis): It is found in northwestern India, Kashmir, Pakistan, Tibet and the Chinese provinces of Qinghai and northwestern Yunnan.
Alpine beavernelle (Pimpinella alpina): It occurs in Austria, Italy, Romania and Slovakia.
Pimpinella anisetum: It occurs in Turkey.
Pimpinella anisoides: It occurs only in Italy including Sicily.
Anise (Pimpinella anisum) The homeland is Albania and Croatia. It is cultivated in warm temperate areas and is rarely feralized. It is used as a medicinal plant.
Pimpinella arguta: It thrives at altitudes of 1300 to 3400 meters in the Chinese provinces of Gansu, Guizhou, Hebei, Henan, Hubei, Shaanxi and Sichuan.
Pimpinella armena : It occurs only in Armenia.
Pimpinella aromatica: It is found in North Caucasus, Azerbaijan, Georgia and Turkey.
Pimpinella atropurpurea: It is known only by a few collections. It thrives on grassy slopes and alpine mats at altitudes of 2,900 to 3,500 meters only in western Yunnan.
Pimpinella battandieri : It occurs only in Algeria.
Pimpinella bicknellii This endemic occurs only in Mallorca.
Pimpinella bisinuata: It thrives in forests, grassy slopes and rivers at altitudes of 1000 to 3500 meters in the Chinese provinces of western Sichuan and Yunnan.
Pimpinella brachycarpa (Syn: Pimpinella calycina var. brachycarpa ): It arrives in southeastern Russia, North Korea and the