This is dill in the garden. It is about 4 feet tall, and there are about 60 stems just like this.
See the umbrella-like flower heads? Remember the Queen Anne's Lace? Same family, Umbelliferae or Apiaceae, which also includes parsley, celery, cumin, fennel, lovage, carrot, parsnip, cilantro. Each one of those little yellow flowers will become a seed to add to dill pickles, or let them fall back on the ground to grow a new plant.
We use dill in lots of things, not just pickles. The leaves and stems are great for cooking with fish, and the green seeds are delicious in any kind of salad: tuna, chicken, potato, pasta, fruit. Dill leaves are also a great flavor to mix with unflavored yoghurt for a vegetable dip or sauce.
I love seeing dill in the garden. When these finish blooming, and the seeds are still green, I cut a few giant heads and put them in a vase. Beautiful!!!
Oh, yeah, black swallowtail butterflies use dill as a host plant for their caterpillars to eat when they hatch.
Lots of reasons to love dill.
HAPPY GARDENING!!!