Angelica archangelica
Ecology
A robust monocarpic perennial herb, naturalised on riversides, roadsides and in waste places. It is otherwise seen only in small numbers in gardens or as an escaped casual. Lowland.
Status
Trends
A. archangelica was cultivated in Britain by 1568 and was first recorded from the wild in c. 1700 (Middlesex). It is now rarely grown and its range has not spread significantly since the 1962 Atlas, other than as a casual, but it has increased in frequency within its core areas.
World Distribution
A Eurasian Boreal-montane species; a rare example of a northern species which has spread south in Europe as a result of cultivation.
Atlas Change Index: 1.34
JNCC Designations
Atlas text references
Atlas (166d)
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1986. Atlas of north European vascular plants north of the Tropic of Cancer. 3 vols.
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1978. Vergleichende Chorologie der zentraleuropäischen Flora. Volume 2. 2 vols.
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1980. Umbellifers of the British Isles. Botanical Society of the British Isles Handbook no. 2.
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1997. The new Oxford Book of Food Plants.