Scientific name: Aegopodium podagraria L.
Common name: Ground Elder, Bishop's Weed
Description
Habit: A hairless perennial, to 100 cm high.
Stems: Hollow, erect and grooved; with creeping slender rhizomes.
Leaves: Lower leaves 2-ternate, upper leaves ternate, often opposite; leaflets broadly lanceolate, pointed and toothed.
Flowers: White, hermaphrodite, in terminal umbels with 12-20 rays; bracts and bracteoles absent; petals 5, free, stamens 5, ovary inferior and 2-celled.
Fruits: A schizocarp; 3-4 mm, ovoid.
Habitat: Woods, gardens, roadsides and waste ground.
Distribution: Occasional.
Native status: Not native
Of conservation interest: No