Angelica archangelicaL.

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WFO wfo-0000536100 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY / CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Angelica archangelica, photographed by Rhonda Ridley
fig. a Rhonda Ridley, CC BY-SA 4.0 / 2022-06-09 / obs. 204701922
Angelica archangelica, photographed by snaily_naily
fig. b snaily_naily, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 203471718
Angelica archangelica, photographed by Anastasia_Surkova
fig. c Anastasia_Surkova, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 204159980
Angelica archangelica, photographed by Anastasia_Surkova
fig. d Anastasia_Surkova, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 203904021
Angelica archangelica, photographed by Anastasia_Surkova
fig. e Anastasia_Surkova, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 204158455
Angelica archangelica, photographed by Anastasia_Surkova
fig. f Anastasia_Surkova, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 203932942
Angelica archangelica, photographed by Anastasia_Surkova
fig. g Anastasia_Surkova, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 200800428
Angelica archangelica, photographed by Anastasia_Surkova
fig. h Anastasia_Surkova, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 200798255

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Native range 23 botanical countries

Regions where Angelica archangelica is native: North Caucasus, West Siberia, Albania, Baltic States, Belarus, Central European Russia, Denmark, East European Russia, Finland, Føroyar, France, Germany, Great Britain, Iceland, Netherlands, North European Russia, Northwest European Russia, Norway, Poland, South European Russia, Sweden, Ukraine, Greenland North CaucasusWest SiberiaAlbaniaBaltic StatesBelarusCentral European RussiaDenmarkEast European RussiaFinlandFranceGermanyIcelandNetherlandsNorth European RussiaNorthwest European RussiaNorwayPolandSouth European RussiaSwedenUkraineGreenland Føroyar
Native distribution of Angelica archangelica, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows. Regions too small to draw at this scale are marked with a dot.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Albania ALB EUROPE
Baltic States BLT
Belarus BLR
Central European Russia RUC
Denmark DEN
East European Russia RUE
Finland FIN
Føroyar FOR
France FRA
Germany GER
Great Britain GRB
Iceland ICE
Netherlands NET
North European Russia RUN
Northwest European Russia RUW
Norway NOR
Poland POL
South European Russia RUS
Sweden SWE
Ukraine UKR
North Caucasus NCS ASIA-TEMPERATE
West Siberia WSB
Greenland GNL NORTHERN AMERICA

Not drawn on the map: Great Britain. We hold no public-domain boundary for this region, so it is listed rather than guessed at.

Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.

Flowering 104 in flower of 278 examined

Peak flowering in Jun. Each bar is the share of Angelica archangelica observations in which someone actually recorded the reproductive state and found the plant in flower, not the raw number of flowering records. That distinction matters: people observe plants far more in spring than in winter, so a bare count of flowering records partly measures when people go outside. Dividing by the number examined removes that. 104 of 278 examined observations were in flower, every one of them research grade. The whisker on each bar is a 95% Wilson interval. 6 months have fewer than 5 examined observations, so no proportion is drawn for them. This is still a global aggregate and not a forecast for your garden: the same species flowers on different dates in different hemispheres. Where a species has fewer than 30 flowering records we do not draw this chart at all. Computed from 10.15468/dl.cgje2x.

Also published as 30 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Angelica archangelica subsp. norwegica (Rupr.) Nordh.
  • Angelica archangelica var. litoralis Wahlenb.
  • Angelica archangelica var. rwegica (Rupr.) Rikli
  • Angelica archangelica var. sativa (Mill.) Rikli
  • Angelica commutata (C.A.Mey. ex Rupr.) M.Hiroe
  • Angelica discocarpa (Fries) M.Hiroe
  • Angelica intermedia Schult. ex Steud.
  • Angelica litoralis Fr.
  • Angelica major Gilib.
  • Angelica norwegica (Rupr.) Nyman
  • Angelica officinalis Moench
  • Angelica procera Salisb.
  • Angelica sativa Mill.
  • Angelica sylvestris var. litoralis (Wahlenb.) Hartm.
  • Archangelica archangelica H.Karst.
  • Archangelica commutata C.A.Mey. ex Rupr.
  • Archangelica discocarpa Fries
  • Archangelica littoralis Agardh ex DC.
  • Archangelica norwegica Rupr.
  • Archangelica officinalis Hoffm.
  • Archangelica officinalis subsp. litoralis DC.J.Dostál
  • Archangelica officinalis var. littoralis (C.Agardh ex DC.) Alef.
  • Archangelica officinalis var. phyllomana Lange
  • Archangelica officinalis var. sativa (Mill.) Alef.

and 6 more.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
  3. Wikidata. common name (P1843), joined on the World Flora Online identifier (P7715). CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-13.
  4. Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice and no toxicity claim, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.