Fennel The inflated leaf bases are eaten as a vegetable, both raw and cooked. Several cultivars of Florence fennel are also known by several other names, notably the Italian name "finocchio". In North American supermarkets, it is often mislabeled as "anise". "Foeniculum vulgare" 'Purpureum' or 'Nigra', "bronze-leaved" fennel, is widely available as a decorative garden plant. Fennel has become naturalized along roadsides, in pastures, and in other open sites in many regions, including northern Europe, the United States, southern Canada, and much of Asia and Australia. It propagates well by seed, and is considered an invasive species and a weed in
HMCS Fennel She remained with this group until December 1944. On 6 March 1944, after unsuccessful attempts at towing the boat to port "U-744" was sunk in the North Atlantic, in position 52°01′N, 22°37′W, after being torpedoed by the British destroyer HMS "Icarus". "U-744" was attacked for over 30 hours by depth charges from the "Fennel", along with HMS "Icarus", the frigate HMCS "St. Catharines", corvettes HMCS "Chilliwack" and HMS "Kenilworth Castle", destroyers HMCS "Chaudiere" and HMCS "Gatineau". Not all these ships fought at the same time, as "Gatineau" and "Kenilworth Castle" both had to leave with mechanical defects during the battle.