Aegopodium

Plant Characteristics

Habit		herbaceous
Lifespan:	⌛	perennial

Cultivation

Scientific Names

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Aegopodium Native to Europe and western Asia. It is a genus of flowering plants of the carrot family Apiaceae, represented by about 7 species, all are perennial herbs. Flowers are compounded, umbels appearing in spring-summer. Fruit consists of 2-winged or ribbed nuts that separate on ripening.

The most well-known member is the Aegopodium podagraria, the ground elder also known as snow-on-the-mountain, Bishop's weed, goutweed, native to Europe and Asia. It is variegated green and white that sometimes reverts to solid green within a patch. Small, white, five-petal flowers are held about three feet high, above the leaves, in flat topped clusters. Underground are long white branching rhizomes that vaguely resemble quackgrass. Regarded as an ecological threat, goutweed is aggressive, invasive and forms dense patches reducing species diversity in the ground layer. On the other hand, because of this, it is often used as a low maintenance ground cover.

Read about Aegopodium in the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture

Aegopodium (aix, goat, and podion, a little foot; probably from the shape of the lfts). Umbelliferae. Goutweed. Coarse, hardy herbaceous perennial, with creeping rootstocks, biternate lvs., sharply toothed, ovate lfts., white fls. in umbels: frs. ovate, glabrous, with equal filiform ribs, and no oil-tubes. CH The above text is from the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture. It may be out of date, but still contains valuable and interesting information which can be incorporated into the remainder of the article. Click on "Collapse" in the header to hide this text.

Cultivation

Frost hardy but drought tender, preferring moist well-drained soil in an open sunny position.

Propagation

Propagate from seed or rhizome.

Species

• Aegopodium alpestre
• Aegopodium handelii
• Aegopodium henryi
• Aegopodium kashmiricum
• Aegopodium latifolium
• Aegopodium podagraria
• Aegopodium tadshikorum

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External links

• w:Aegopodium. Some of the material on this page may be from Wikipedia, under the Creative Commons license.
• Aegopodium QR Code (Size 50, 100, 200, 500)
• http://www.dcnr.state.pa.us/forestry/invasivetutorial/Goutweed.htm
• http://www.homolaicus.com/scienza/erbario/utility/botanica_sistematica/hypertext/0035.htm#000000 Botanica Sistematica
• Lord, Tony, Flora: The Gardener's Bible, Cassell (London),2003