Angelica lucidaL.

seacoast angelica

WFO wfo-0000536270 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Angelica lucida, photographed by Trevor Van Loon
fig. a Trevor Van Loon, CC BY 4.0 / 2021-08-28 / obs. 154407257
Angelica lucida, photographed by Renee MacQuarrie
fig. b Renee MacQuarrie, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 147643619
Angelica lucida, photographed by Todd Boland
fig. c Todd Boland, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 145910861
Angelica lucida, photographed by Matt Muir
fig. d Matt Muir, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 150808193
Angelica lucida, photographed by Todd Boland
fig. e Todd Boland, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 144471261
Angelica lucida, photographed by Jason Grant
fig. f Jason Grant, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 143800326
Angelica lucida, photographed by ChrisMcV
fig. g ChrisMcV, CC0 1.0 / obs. 134145153
Angelica lucida, photographed by Jason Grant
fig. h Jason Grant, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 86710749

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Native range 27 botanical countries

Regions where Angelica lucida is native: Japan, Kamchatka, Khabarovsk, Kuril Is., Magadan, Primorye, Sakhalin, Alaska, Aleutian Is., British Columbia, California, Connecticut, Labrador, Maine, Massachusetts, New Brunswick, New Hampshire, New York, Newfoundland, Northwest Territories, Nova Scotia, Oregon, Prince Edward I., Québec, Rhode I., Washington, Yukon JapanKamchatkaKhabarovskMagadanPrimoryeSakhalinAlaskaBritish ColumbiaCaliforniaConnecticutLabradorMaineMassachusettsNew BrunswickNew HampshireNew YorkNewfoundlandNorthwest TerritoriesNova ScotiaOregonPrince Edward I.QuébecWashingtonYukon Rhode I.
Native distribution of Angelica lucida, 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
Alaska ASK NORTHERN AMERICA
Aleutian Is. ALU
British Columbia BRC
California CAL
Connecticut CNT
Labrador LAB
Maine MAI
Massachusetts MAS
New Brunswick NBR
New Hampshire NWH
New York NWY
Newfoundland NFL
Northwest Territories NWT
Nova Scotia NSC
Oregon ORE
Prince Edward I. PEI
Québec QUE
Rhode I. RHO
Washington WAS
Yukon YUK
Japan JAP ASIA-TEMPERATE
Kamchatka KAM
Khabarovsk KHA
Kuril Is. KUR
Magadan MAG
Primorye PRM
Sakhalin SAK

Not drawn on the map: Kuril Is., Aleutian Is.. We hold no public-domain boundary for these regions, so they are 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 122 in flower of 258 examined

Peak flowering in Jun. Each bar is the share of Angelica lucida 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. 122 of 258 examined observations were in flower, every one of them research grade. The whisker on each bar is a 95% Wilson interval. 2 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.

Where it actually grows measured, from 1,678 observations

Condition 5th percentile Median 95th percentile
Coldest month, mean daily low -15.8 °C 1.8 °C 6.9 °C
Warmest month, mean daily high 12.7 °C 16.7 °C 22.7 °C
Annual rainfall 773 mm 2,394 mm 4,036 mm
Rainfall in the driest quarter 81 mm 215 mm 531 mm

It is found where winters are severely cold. This is not care advice and it is not a forecast. It is a measurement: we sampled the climate at every one of the 1,678 research-grade observations of Angelica lucida that carry a coordinate, and this is the range those places actually span. The 5th and 95th percentiles are used rather than the minimum and maximum, because a single cultivated specimen in a heated conservatory should not widen a tropical plant's range to the Arctic.

This is not a hardiness zone. A USDA zone is the average annual extreme minimum temperature. The figure above is the mean daily minimum of the coldest month, which is a different quantity and is typically far warmer. Reading one as the other would place a plant several zones too warm, so we do not publish a hardiness zone, because we do not have one. Climate from CHELSA V2.1 (Karger et al. 2017); occurrences from 10.15468/dl.cgje2x.

Also published as 9 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 longipes (J.M.Coult. & Rose) Pimenov
  • Angelica maritima (J.M.Coult. & Rose) Pimenov
  • Caucalis lucida (L.) Lag.
  • Coelopleurum longipes J.M.Coult. & Rose
  • Coelopleurum lucidum (L.) Fernald
  • Coelopleurum lucidum f. frondosum Fernald
  • Coelopleurum maritimum J.M.Coult. & Rose
  • Ligusticum actaeifolium Bigelow
  • Thaspium actaeifolium (Michx.) Nutt.

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.