Wild Angelica

[puddleshark]

Comments

[thoughtsbykat]

Not queen's ann's lace? It was one of my favorites when I was growing up.

[changeling72]

I think that's wild carrot, isn't it?

[puddleshark]

No, as changeling72 said, I think your Queen Anne's Lace is Daucus carota, which has flatter heads to the sprays of flowers...

It doesn't show very well in this photo, but Angelica has a little globe of flowers on each stalk.

[changeling72]

Very pretty! I wouldn't know what it was if you whacked me around the face with it, though!

[puddleshark]

I'm pretty sure it's Angelica from the shape of the leaves - but I'd never be confident enough to pick it as a herb. There are too many poisonous umbellifers that like to grow beside water!

[heliopausa]

Ah-ha! I thought this had a faintly sinister air (the shaded part was showing very dark on my dodgy screen) and reading through the comments I see there are indeed poisonous lookalikes.

[puddleshark]

It does look very like Hemlock Water Dropwort - which is charmingly pretty, and deadly...