Scientific name: Angelica sylvestris L.
Common name: Wild Angelina
Description
Habit: A stout, usually hairless perennial, to 1.25 m high.
Stems: Thick, hollow, often reddish.
Leaves: Leaves 2-3-pinnate or ternate, stalk of upper leaves very inflated at the base; leaflets oval, 25-50 mm long, finely toothed.
Flowers: White or pale pink, hermaphrodite, in large hemispherical umbels, with 20-30 rays; bracts few or absent, bracteoles few; petals 5, free; stamens 5; ovary inferior and 2-celled.
Fruits: A schizocarp, 4-5 mm, oblong, flattened with broad wings.
Habitat: By streams, ditches and ponds, in damp meadows and marshes; rarely in open woods, roadsides, cliff-ledges, maritime rocks or limestone pavement.
Distribution: Abundant on acid soils, occasional on limestone.
Native status: Native
Of conservation interest: No