Angelica L.
Glabrous or tomentose biennial to perennial herbs, with stout taproots. Lvs 2-3-pinnate or ternate; segments usually broad. Umbels compound, pedunculate; bracts usually 0, sometimes present, linear; bracteoles usually numerous, entire, rarely pinnate or 0. Petals usually white or green, sometimes pink, purple or violet, regular, with entire, acuminate, inflexed apex; calyx teeth evident, minute or 0. Fr. ovate, oblong or globose, strongly flattened dorsally, not beaked, spineless, but sometimes tomentose; commissure broad; ribs 5 per mericarp; dorsal ribs slender or slightly winged; lateral ribs with a broad, thin, or corky wing; lateral wings of opposing mericarps not appressed; vittae few to numerous in furrows.
c. 75 spp., N. temperate regions. Naturalised sp. 1.
Some indigenous Gingidia spp. were for a time mistakenly included in Angelica [ see, Dawson, J. W., Univ. Calif. Publ. Bot. 33 : 1-98 (1961); Dawson, J. W. and Webb, C. J., Actes du 2ème Symp. Int. sur les Ombellifères, 22-32 (1978)].
