Garden Angelica - Angelica archangelica

A robust upright, aromatic plant to 2 metres, with cream or greeny-yellow flowers 2 to 4 mm in umbels that may be 25 cm across.

Wild Angelica

A very robust plant; glabrous, or nearly so; hollow stems; upper leaves with strongly inflated petioles, fruits flattened, oval, with thick corky wings

A photo of the plant in its habitat, showing umbels, basal leaves and fruits

River valleys and disturbed ground.

Flowers June to September.

Perennial.

Widespread in Britain as a casual or naturalised plant.

Local in Leicestershire and Rutland where it occurs mainly in the Soar valley – it is rare elsewhere in our area. In the 1979 Flora survey of Leicestershire it was found in 5 of the 617 tetrads.

In the current Checklist (Jeeves, 2011) it is listed as Alien (neophyte); locally frequent along R Soar; rare elsewhere.