Angelica atropurpureaL.

purple-stemmed angelica

WFO wfo-0000536116 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h

Angelica atropurpurea, photographed by jyoung2399
fig. a jyoung2399, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-06-12 / obs. 205639431
Angelica atropurpurea, photographed by Marilynn Miller
fig. b Marilynn Miller, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 204011750
Angelica atropurpurea, photographed by Liren Varghese
fig. c Liren Varghese, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 205275970
Angelica atropurpurea, photographed by Eric Schmidt
fig. d Eric Schmidt, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 194062424
Angelica atropurpurea, photographed by Eric Schmidt
fig. e Eric Schmidt, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 194063751
Angelica atropurpurea, photographed by Eric Knight
fig. f Eric Knight, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 169935587
Angelica atropurpurea, photographed by Derek
fig. g Derek, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 150143451
Angelica atropurpurea, photographed by Todd Boland
fig. h Todd Boland, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 150227355

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Flowering n = 229 observations

Peak flowering in Jun, from 229 community-annotated observations worldwide. This is a global aggregate, not a forecast for your garden: the same species flowers on different dates in different hemispheres, and citizen-science records cluster near cities, at weekends, and in spring. Where a species has fewer than 30 annotated records we do not draw this chart at all.

Also published as 5 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 atropurpurea var. atropurpurea
  • Angelica atropurpurea var. occidentalis Fassett
  • Angelica laurentiana Fernald
  • Archangelica atropurpurea (L.) Hoffm.
  • Selinum atropurpureum (L.) Link

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.

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