Irish wildflowers

Wild Angelica, Angelica sylvestris
Photographs: Ballingeary, Co. Cork

Wild Angelica
Angelica sylvestris
Gallfheabhrán
Family: Apiaceae

Flowering time: July-September. Perennial. Native.

Many-rayed umbels of white flowers, often tinged pink. Petals curve inwards but not notched. Shiny hairless, pinnate leaves with toothed leaflets. Hairless stems are hollow and purple-green. Height 80-200cm

Throughout Ireland by rivers and in damp meadows, grassland, woods

Hogweed, Heracleum sphondylium. Dull, hairy leaves, notched petals

Wild Angelica, Angelica sylvestris

Wild Angelica, Angelica sylvestris
Wild Angelica, Angelica sylvestris, Gallfheabhrán

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