In the process of growing related crops such as lovage and celery, there may be periods when there is a feeling that they are one and the same plant. Having undoubted similarities, they are still different even in appearance.
Important! The assertion that lovage is celery is wrongful - they are simply botanical relatives.
What a lovage looks like: description of a plant
Lovage is a perennial plant similar to celery. Lovage has a rounded stem in the form of a tube. The height of the stems of this grass, and lovage is grass, can reach two meters. Branches only the upper part of the plant. The power of the root system is determined by its massiveness. The root has the shape of a spindle. The wedges of toothed green lovage leaves gleam beautifully. Sparkling multiple shades of yellow small flowers lovage decorate the site throughout the summer. With the exception of three summer months, the grass before flowering has the same appearance as in the autumn looks like a faded lovage. 
Did you know? In different languages, lovage has similar names: "Liebstok" (love) - in German, "loveage" (love parsley) - in English.
Celery Description
Perennial (usually biennial) herb of the umbrella family. Can grow up to one meter in height. The erect stem has grooves, branches, covered with opposite trifoliate leaves with dentate. They differ basal leaves, which have fleshy petioles and sharp-toothed leaf blades. In the first year of the celery are formed root and rosette foliage. Flowering complex umbrellas flowers (July-August) in the second year of life. Small flowers are white, cream, greenish, ivory. A wrong, sometimes flattened ball of a root crop can have a diameter of up to 20 cm. A large number of thick vertical roots grows from it. 
Did you know? It is believed that the legendary Tristan and Isolde drank a love drink made from a mixture of celery juice, apple and pear.
How to distinguish celery from lovage
Lovage is twice as high as celery and blooms with another color scheme, and these differences are striking. If you look at the lovage and celery even more closely, then it is easy to find the difference in the foliage of the same type in the lovage and the two species on the same plant in the celery. The different shape of the roots is not visible from the surface, but also testifies in favor of the fact that celery and lovage are not the same thing. 
Important! It is worth cultivating both extremely beneficial plants.Ignoring the controversy about identity or differences between lovage and celery, it is advisable to focus on the undoubted benefits that both these plants bring to people. Cookery and medicine (both official and folk) can not do without their excellent qualities.
