Angelica sylvestris


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Noun1.Angelica sylvestris - European herb with compound leaves and white flowersAngelica sylvestris - European herb with compound leaves and white flowers; adventive on Cape Breton Island
angelica, angelique - any of various tall and stout herbs of the genus Angelica having pinnately compound leaves and small white or greenish flowers in compound umbels
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rotundifolia r, Anemonoides nemorosa, Circaea x intermedia, Milium effusum, Mnium hornum, Polypodium interjectum and Sesleria argentea + in 2; Angelica sylvestris subsp.
A truly architectural plant flowering now is wild angelica, Angelica sylvestris, growing over 2m high with large umbels of white flowers.
According to the guidelines of the EUR-27 version of the "Interpretation Manual of European Union Habitats" (EC 2007), all the forests described here should be included in the priority habitat "91E0* Alnus glutinosa and Fraxinus excelsior riverside forests (Alno-Padion, Alnion incanae, Salicion albae)" not only because they are riverside forests growing in the temperate zone dominated by alder tree or ash tree (as happens with the riverside ash tree forests), but also because their floristic composition includes many species considered characteristic of this kind of habitat (Alnus glutinosa, Angelica sylvestris, Betula pubescens, Cardamine pratensis, Carex pendula, Carex remota, C.