Angelica archangelica L.

First published in Sp. Pl.: 250 (1753)
This species is accepted
The native range of this species is Greenland, Europe to W. Siberia. It is a perennial and grows primarily in the temperate biome. It is used as a medicine and invertebrate food, has environmental uses and for food.

Distribution

Native to:

Albania, Baltic States, Belarus, Central European Russia, Denmark, East European Russia, Finland, France, Føroyar, Germany, Great Britain, Greenland, Iceland, Netherlands, North Caucasus, North European Russia, Northwest European Russia, Norway, Poland, South European Russia, Sweden, Ukraine, West Siberia

Extinct in:

Bulgaria

Introduced into:

Belgium, Czechoslovakia, Ireland

Synonyms

Homotypic Synonyms

Classification

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PAFTOL

POWO follows these authorities in accepting this name:

  • Govaerts, R. (1995). World Checklist of Seed Plants 1(1, 2): 1-483, 529. MIM, Deurne.
  • Jonsell, B. & Karlsson, T. (eds.) (2010). Flora Nordica 6: 1-298. The Bergius Foundaton.
  • Malyschev, L.I., Peshkova, G.A. & Baikov, K.S. (eds.) (2007). Flora of Siberia 14: 1-210. Scientific Publishers, Inc., Enfield, Plymouth.
  • Mirek, Z., Piękoś-Mirkowa, H., Zając, A. & Zając, M (2020). Vascular plants of Poland an annotated checklist: 1-526. W. Szafer institute of botany, Polish academy of sciences, Krakow, Poland.
  • Ri͡abinina, Z.N. & Kni͡azev, M.S. (2009). Opredelitel sosudistykh rastenii Orenburgskoi oblasti: 1-757. Moskva: KMK.
  • Stace, C. (2019). New Flora of the British Isles ed. 4: 1-1266. C & M Floristics.
  • Takhtajan, A.L. (ed.) in Takhtajan, A.L. (ed.) (2012). Konspekt Flora Kavkaza 3(2): 1-623. Editio Universitatis Petropolitanae.
  • Tutin, T.G. & al. (eds.) (1968). Flora Europaea 2: 1-469. Cambridge University Press.
  • Vangjeli, J. (2017). Flora Albania Atlas 1: 1-933. Koeltz Botanical Books.

Kew Species Profiles

  • Culpeper, N. (1995). Culpeper’s Complete Herbal: A Book of Natural Remedies for Ancient Ills. Wordsworth Editions, Ware, Hertfordshire.
  • Davidson, A. (2006). The Oxford Companion to Food, 2nd Edition (edited by T. Jaine). Oxford University Press, Oxford.
  • Facciola, S. (1998). Cornucopia II, A Source Book of Edible Plants. Kampong Publications, Vista, CA.
  • Gledhill, D. (2008). The Names of Plants. 4th Edition. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
  • Jonsell, B. & Karlsson, T. (eds) (2010). Flora Nordica 6. The Swedish Museum of Natural History, Stockholm.
  • Mabberley, D.J. (2008). Mabberley’s Plant-book: A Portable Dictionary of Plants, their Classification and Uses. Third edition. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
  • Tutin, T.G. et al (1968). Flora Europaea. Volume 2: Rosaceae to Umbelliferae. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.

Kew Backbone Distributions

  • Jonsell, B. & Karlsson, T. (eds.) (2010). Flora Nordica 6: 1-298. The Bergius Foundaton.
  • Malyschev, L.I., Peshkova, G.A. & Baikov, K.S. (eds.) (2007). Flora of Siberia 14: 1-210. Scientific Publishers, Inc., Enfield, Plymouth.
  • Mirek, Z., Piękoś-Mirkowa, H., Zając, A. & Zając, M (2020). Vascular plants of Poland an annotated checklist: 1-526. W. Szafer institute of botany, Polish academy of sciences, Krakow, Poland.
  • Stace, C. (2019). New Flora of the British Isles ed. 4: 1-1266. C & M Floristics.
  • Takhtajan, A.L. (ed.) in Takhtajan, A.L. (ed.) (2012). Konspekt Flora Kavkaza 3(2): 1-623. Editio Universitatis Petropolitanae.
  • USDA, NRCS ( 2021-continuously updated). Natural Resources Conservation Services Plant Database http://plants.usda.gov/cgi_bin/topics.cgi?earl=checklist.html.
  • Vangjeli, J. (2017). Flora Albania Atlas 1: 1-933. Koeltz Botanical Books.

Useful Plants and Fungi of Colombia

  • Allen, D., Bilz, M., Leaman, D.J., Miller, R.M., Timoshyna, A., & Window, J. (2014). European Red List of medicinal plants. Publications Office of the European Union, Luxembourg 10:907382.
  • Diazgranados et al. (2021). Catalogue of plants of Colombia. Useful Plants and Fungi of Colombia project. In prep.
  • Diazgranados, M., Allkin, B., Black N., Cámara-Leret, R., Canteiro C., Carretero J., Eastwood R., Hargreaves S., Hudson A., Milliken W., Nesbitt, M., Ondo, I., Patmore, K., Pironon, S., Turner, R., Ulian, T. (2020). World Checklist of Useful Plant Species. Produced by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Knowledge Network for Biocomplexity.
  • FPI (2021). Food Plants International. https://fms.cmsvr.com/fmi/webd/Food_Plants_World?homeurl=https://foodplantsinternational.com/plants/
  • GBIF.org (2021). GBIF species matching tool. https://www.gbif.org/tools/species-lookup
  • GRIN (2021). Germplasm Resources Information Network from the United States Department of Agriculture. https://www.ars-grin.gov/
  • Instituto de Investigación de Recursos Biológicos Alexander von Humbodlt (2014). Plantas alimenticias y medicinales nativas de Colombia. 2567 registros, aportados por: Castellanos, C. (Contacto del recurso), Valderrama, N. (Creador del recurso, Autor), Bernal, Y. (Autor), García, N. (Autor). http://i2d.humboldt.org.co/ceiba/resource.do?r=ls_colombia_magnoliophyta_2014
  • Instituto de Investigación de Recursos Biológicos Alexander von Humboldt. (2014). Plantas alimenticias y medicinales nativas de Colombia. 2567 registros, aportados por: Castellanos, C. (Contacto del recurso), Valderrama, N. (Creador del recurso, Autor), Bernal, Y. (Autor), García, N. (Autor). http://i2d.humboldt.org.co/ceiba/resource.do?r=ls_colombia_magnoliophyta_2014
  • Medicinal Plant Names Services (MPNS) v.10 (2021); http://mpns.kew.org/
  • Plants for malaria, plants for fever: Medicinal species in Latin America, a bibliographic survey: Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
  • RBG, Kew (2021). Kew Economic Botany Collection. https://ecbot.science.kew.org/
  • Willis, K.J. (ed.) (2017). State of the World’s Plants 2017. Report. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.

Other Data

Other Kew resources that provide information on this taxon:

Date Reference Identified As Barcode Type Status Has image?
Sep 6, 2023 Breman, E.; McCabe, S.; Weststrand, S. [EB23027] Sweden K009000907 No
Ross-Craig, S.; Sealy, J.R. [1889] United Kingdom K002765659 Yes
Ross-Craig, S.; Sealy, J.R. [1889] United Kingdom K002765680 Yes
Ross-Craig, S.; Sealy, J.R. [1889] United Kingdom K002765676 Yes
Melville, R. [s.n.] K002765654 Yes
Melville, R. [s.n.] United Kingdom K002765653 Yes
Ross-Craig, S.; Sealy, J.R. [1889] United Kingdom K002765663 Yes
Ross-Craig, S.; Sealy, J.R. [1889] United Kingdom K002765664 Yes
Horwood, A.R. [s.n.] K002765670 Yes
Ruhsam, M. [DMR42] United Kingdom K001768271 Yes
Ross-Craig, S.; Sealy, J.R. [C1/1889] United Kingdom K002765655 Yes
Ross-Craig, S.; Sealy, J.R. [B3/1889] United Kingdom K002765658 Yes
Turrill, W.B. [s.n.] United Kingdom K002765678 Yes
Ross-Craig, S.; Sealy, J.R. [1889] United Kingdom K002765674 Yes
Ross-Craig, S.; Sealy, J.R. [1889] United Kingdom K002765683 Yes
Ross-Craig, S.; Sealy, J.R. [1889] United Kingdom K002765682 Yes
Ross-Craig, S.; Sealy, J.R. [A1/1889] United Kingdom K002765657 Yes
Ross-Craig, S.; Sealy, J.R. [1889] United Kingdom K002765662 Yes
Ross-Craig, S.; Sealy, J.R. [1889] United Kingdom K002765677 Yes
Crawley, M. [MJC302] K002765652 Yes
Ross-Craig, S.; Sealy, J.R. [1889] United Kingdom K002765661 Yes
[C.E.H.] [s.n.] K002765671 Yes
Ross-Craig, S.; Sealy, J.R. [A-2/1889] United Kingdom K002765681 Yes
Ross-Craig, S.; Sealy, J.R. [1889] United Kingdom K002765660 Yes
Ross-Craig, S.; Sealy, J.R. [B5/1889] United Kingdom K002765656 Yes
Ross-Craig, S.; Sealy, J.R. [1889] United Kingdom K002765675 Yes
Horwood, A.R. [s.n.] K002765672 Yes
Ross-Craig, S.; Sealy, J.R. [1889] United Kingdom K002765665 Yes
Horwood, A.R. [s.n.] K002765673 Yes
Lowne, B.T. [34-178-757] K000568169 Yes
Lowne, B.T. [34-178-757] K000568168 Yes
Devold, J.; Scholander, P.F. [s.n.] K002766596 Yes

Sources

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    • Angiosperm Threat Predictions
    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
  • Herbarium Catalogue Specimens

    • 'The Herbarium Catalogue, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published on the Internet http://www.kew.org/herbcat [accessed on Day Month Year]'. Please enter the date on which you consulted the system.
    • Digital Image © Board of Trustees, RBG Kew http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
  • Kew Backbone Distributions

    • The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2024. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
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    • The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2024. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
    • © Copyright 2023 International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0
  • Kew Science Photographs

    • Copyright applied to individual images
  • Kew Species Profiles

    • Kew Species Profiles
    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0
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    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0