How to identify Heracleum aquilegifolium
Identify Heracleum aquilegifolium by combining habit, leaf characters, flower or fruit details, location, and its family pattern. Do not rely on one feature alone.
- Look for a shrub habit.
- Confirm leaf shape: Deeply lobed/toothed.
- Confirm flower colour: White.
- Confirm it sits within the Apiaceae family pattern, then compare close relatives before deciding it is Heracleum aquilegifolium.
Plant Details
Leaf characters
- Leaf shape
- Deeply lobed/toothedrecorded
Typical of the family
- Arrangement
- Alternate
Characters marked “recorded” are for Heracleum aquilegifolium itself; the rest are typical of the Apiaceae family.
Flower & fruit characters
- Flower colour
- Whiterecorded
Typical of the family
- Flower symmetry
- Actinomorphic (radially symmetrical)
- Inflorescence
- Umbel
- Fruit
- Schizocarp
Characters marked “recorded” are for Heracleum aquilegifolium itself; the rest are typical of the Apiaceae family — flowering plants only.
About Heracleum aquilegifolium
A member of the Apiaceae family, Heracleum aquilegifolium is a shrub. It grows in dry deciduous forests.
Apiaceae
Carrot family
Heracleum aquilegifolium belongs to the Apiaceae family.
The illustration represents the family — not necessarily this exact species.
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