Seasonal Wild Flowers

Latin name

Angelica sylvestris

Family

Apiaceae

Flowering season

June to September

English distribution

It is found throughout the country apart from parts of

the East.

See the BSBI distribution map for Wild Angelica

Habitat

It grows in damp grassy habitats, hedge banks and

wet woodlands.

Description

Wild Angelica is a native, perennial herb growing up

to 2.5m.

The flowers are up to 2mm and in secondary umbels

up to 15cm.

The umbels have no bracts but the secondary

umbels have bracteoles.

The five petals vary from white to pink and are incurved.

Flowers are protanderous with 5 stamens.

The filaments are long and the anthers white.

There are 2 white linear styles.

Flowers are sometimes unisexual.

Fruits are dorsally flattened and have 3 ridges and 4 wings.

Leaves are pinnate or bipinnate and up to 60cm.

Leaflets are oval and regularly serrated.

The petioles are inflated and the upper leaves are inflated

around the expanding flowerheads.

Stems are hollow and vary from green to dark purple.

The upper stems and the rays of the umbels vary from

purple, to green and to a hairy white.