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Peucedanum officinale
Also called Sea Hog's Fennel, Sulphurweed, Sulphur Weed
Hog's-fennel is a tall, hardy perennial of the carrot family, native to rough grassland and sea-side clay banks in Central and Southern Europe. It is rare in the UK and is not a common garden plant, so it suits wild or naturalistic planting in sunny, well-drained spots.
Rough grassland, clayey banks and cliffs near the sea. It is a glabrous perennial with stems up to 2 m in height, solid, striate, sometimes weakly angled, sparsely blotched wine red, surrounded by fibrous remains of petioles at the base and springing from a stout rootstock. The umbels of greenish-yellow flowers contrast pleasingly with the bushy, radiating mass of dark green, long-petioled leaves, which bear linear, sessile lobes, attenuate at both ends and having narrow, cartilaginous margins (i.e., individual lobes resembling blades of grass).
Coastal Hogfennel · Hogfennel · Makou · Peucedanum verticillare · Hog's Fennel
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Peucedanum officinale by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
