Angelica sylvestrisL.

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WFO wfo-0000536413 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Angelica sylvestris, photographed by Anastasia_Surkova
fig. a Anastasia_Surkova, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-06-12 / obs. 205902345
Angelica sylvestris, photographed by Anastasia_Surkova
fig. b Anastasia_Surkova, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 205903153
Angelica sylvestris, photographed by Daria
fig. c Daria, CC0 1.0 / obs. 204900945
Angelica sylvestris, photographed by Yurii Basov
fig. d Yurii Basov, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 204653804
Angelica sylvestris, photographed by Yurii Basov
fig. e Yurii Basov, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 204442834
Angelica sylvestris, photographed by Yurii Basov
fig. f Yurii Basov, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 204158728
Angelica sylvestris, photographed by Марина Садыкова
fig. g Марина Садыкова, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 203246573
Angelica sylvestris, photographed by Yurii Basov
fig. h Yurii Basov, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 202977985

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Native range 50 botanical countries

Regions where Angelica sylvestris is native: Altay, Buryatiya, Irkutsk, Kazakhstan, Krasnoyarsk, Lebanon-Syria, Mongolia, North Caucasus, Transcaucasus, Türkiye, Tuva, West Siberia, Xinjiang, Yakutiya, Albania, Austria, Baltic States, Belarus, Belgium, Bulgaria, Central European Russia, Corse, Czechia-Slovakia, Denmark, East European Russia, Finland, Føroyar, France, Germany, Great Britain, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Netherlands, North European Russia, Northwest European Russia, Norway, NW. Balkan Pen., Poland, Portugal, Romania, Sicilia, South European Russia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Türkiye-in-Europe, Ukraine AltayBuryatiyaIrkutskKazakhstanKrasnoyarskLebanon-SyriaMongoliaNorth CaucasusTranscaucasusTürkiyeTuvaWest SiberiaXinjiangYakutiyaAlbaniaAustriaBaltic StatesBelarusBelgiumBulgariaCentral European RussiaCorseCzechia-SlovakiaDenmarkEast European RussiaFinlandFranceGermanyGreeceHungaryIcelandIrelandItalyNetherlandsNorth European RussiaNorthwest European RussiaNorwayNW. Balkan Pen.PolandPortugalRomaniaSiciliaSouth European RussiaSpainSwedenSwitzerlandTürkiye-in-EuropeUkraine Føroyar
Native distribution of Angelica sylvestris, 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
Austria AUT
Baltic States BLT
Belarus BLR
Belgium BGM
Bulgaria BUL
Central European Russia RUC
Corse COR
Czechia-Slovakia CZE
Denmark DEN
East European Russia RUE
Finland FIN
Føroyar FOR
France FRA
Germany GER
Great Britain GRB
Greece GRC
Hungary HUN
Iceland ICE
Ireland IRE
Italy ITA
Netherlands NET
North European Russia RUN
Northwest European Russia RUW
Norway NOR
NW. Balkan Pen. YUG
Poland POL
Portugal POR
Romania ROM
Sicilia SIC
South European Russia RUS
Spain SPA
Sweden SWE
Switzerland SWI
Türkiye-in-Europe TUE
Ukraine UKR
Altay ALT ASIA-TEMPERATE
Buryatiya BRY
Irkutsk IRK
Kazakhstan KAZ
Krasnoyarsk KRA
Lebanon-Syria LBS
Mongolia MON
North Caucasus NCS
Transcaucasus TCS
Türkiye TUR
Tuva TVA
West Siberia WSB
Xinjiang CHX
Yakutiya YAK

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 655 in flower of 1,056 examined

Peak flowering in Jul. Each bar is the share of Angelica sylvestris 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. 655 of 1,056 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.

Also published as 45 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 alpina Krock. ex Steud.
  • Angelica brachyradia Freyn
  • Angelica ebulifolia Lapeyr.
  • Angelica elata Velen.
  • Angelica elatior (Wahlenb.) Dalla Torre
  • Angelica flavescens Hoffm.
  • Angelica globifera Freyn
  • Angelica illyrica Maly
  • Angelica macrophylla Schur
  • Angelica minor Gilib.
  • Angelica montana Brot.
  • Angelica nemorosa Ten.
  • Angelica pachyptera Avé-Lall.
  • Angelica pratensis J.Presl & C.Presl
  • Angelica razulii All.
  • Angelica reuteri Boiss.
  • Angelica ruthenica Schott ex Ledeb.
  • Angelica sylvestris f. nidus (Kitt.) Thell.
  • Angelica sylvestris f. stenophylla Issler
  • Angelica sylvestris f. villosa (Lag.) Cout.
  • Angelica sylvestris prol. ceretanica Sennen
  • Angelica sylvestris subsp. montana (Brot.) Arcang.
  • Angelica sylvestris var. decurrens Rupr.
  • Angelica sylvestris var. decurrens Fisch.

and 21 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.

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