Angelica
Angelica dentata
Apiaceae (Parsley) Family

Plant is a tall, upright, slender perennial with fleshy or tuberous roots. Preferred habitat is pine wood areas, sand ridges and clearings. Distribution is throughout the Escambia region.

Leaves are mostly basal; deeply cut into narrow angular segments; smooth to hairy.

Flowers are in umbels five to eight inches across; compound and bisexual. Color is
greenish-white; stalked and blooming before the smaller upper leaves emerge; rank odor. Flowers occur in the summer and autumn.

Fruit is an ovary with two or more seed chambers.

Plant is not well known outside west Florida, Alabama and Mississippi and some scattered locations in southern Georgia. Some varieties of the plant are cultivated in Europe where it is eaten like celery. In France parts of the plant are cooked to a thick syrup and candied as a traditional Christmas treat.