Irish wildflowers BSBI map

Hogweed, Heracleum sphondylium, Feabhrán
Photographs: Ballingeary, Co. Cork

Hogweed
Heracleum sphondylium
Feabhrán
Family: Apiaceae

Flowering time: June-September. Biennial. Native.

White flowers with deeply notched petals in flat-topped umbels (flowers can be pink-tinged) followed by oval fruit. Leaves are rough, grey-green, the bases clasping stem. Pinnate with coarse-toothed leaflets, usually lobed. Stems hollow, ridged, hairy. To 200 cm

Very common on roadsides, hedgebanks, grassland and in woods.

Similar: Angelica, Angelica sylvestris and
Giant Hogweed, Heracleum mantegazzianum. To 5m tall

Hogweed, Heracleum sphondylium, Feabhrán

Hogweed, Heracleum sphondylium, Feabhrán
Hogweed, Heracleum sphondylium, Feabhrán

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