NAME: Chervil OTHER COMMON NAMES: Garden chervil or French parsley SCIENTIFIC NAME: Anthriscus cerefolium COLOR: White flowers PLANT SEEDS: In Spring after danger of frost. HARVEST: Late Fall PLANT HEIGHT: Up to 28 inches ZONE: 3-10 LIGHT REQUIREMENTS: Full Sun SOIL & WATER PREFERENCES: Average QUANTITY: 150 Seeds OTHER: Chervil is used, particularly in France, to season poultry, seafood, young spring vegetables (such as carrots), soups, and sauces. More delicate than parsley, it has a faint taste of liquorice or aniseed. Chervil is one of the four traditional French fines herbes, along with tarragon, chives, and parsley, which are essential to French cooking. Unlike the more pungent, robust herbs, thyme, rosemary, etc., which can take prolonged cooking, the fines herbes are added at the last minute, to salads, omelettes, and soups.