Bishop's goutweed
Aegopodium podagraria L.
- light
- Part sun
- water
- Medium
- tall
- 53 cm
- wide
- 38 cm
Apiaceae
Formerly Aegopodium angelicifolium, Aegopodium simplex, Apium biternatum, Apium podagraria, and 11 more
When it flowers
Not known yet in the tropics: too few flowering observations to read a season from.
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Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- Perennial or rhizomatous geophyteKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- TemperateKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- Temp. EurasiaKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Part shade (3 to 6 h)Read from NC State Extension, one source
- Height
- 15 cm to 91 cmRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Spread
- 30 cm to 46 cmRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Water
- Average: moist, well drainedRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Flowers
- WhiteRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Coldest it survives
- -40 °C (USDA zone 3a)Read from NC State Extension, one source
Not known yet: heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (9)
- Dutch
- Zevenblad, zevenblad
- Czech
- bršlice kozí noha
- German
- Gewöhnlicher Giersch
- Finnish
- lehtovuohenputki
- French
- podagraire
- Macedonian
- обипен седмолист
- Norwegian Bokmål
- skvallerkål
- Chinese
- 羊角芹
- Slovenian
- navadna regačica
Where this comes from
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- NC State Extension, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, Public domain
- 3D model: Aegopodium podagraria (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
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