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Fam:  Umbelliferae Juss. (Apiaceae)
Genus:   Heracleum L.
English Name: Hogweed, Cow parsnip

Description:

Biannual to perennial herbaceous plants with spindle or irregular rhizomes. Stems ribbed and grooved or rough ribbed polygonal, in its upper part vertebra like or sequentially branched in the lower part verrucose, up fibrous, fully fluffy or fibrous diverted. Leaves simple, lobed, palmate or divided pinnate similar. End shares downward or not  downward along veins. Complex awnings and canopies with a sheath of grassy leaflets or uncoated. Calyx 5 teeth or missing. Petals ovate, narrowly heart-shaped, oval, end flowers larger, atop a deep cut to split, weak or unscrewing deep, greenish yellow, pink or white. Fruit oblate, elliptical to circular; filamentary ribs, end-winged, single channel, shorter than fruit. The stilopodium conical, domed, at the base wrinkled.

Economic significance. Sources of essential oils. Some species are used for food. In folk medicine used for the preparation of infusions and extracts against epilepsy as a diuretic agent. Good honey plants.

Table for determining the types 1    End leafy shares lantce, downward veins on ……................................................................................ 3. - H. angustisectum (Stoj. et Acht.) Peev 1* End leafy shares elliptical back ovate, broad lance, rounded, not downward in veins ……...............................................................................…… 2 2   End leafy shares lobed with rounded partitions ........................................................................................................................ 4. - H. ternatum Vel. 2* Basal leaves with more than 3 parts .............................................................................................................................. ........................................ 3 3   Stem at the top vertebra apparent branched. The flowers white, External significantly larger ............................................ . 1. - H. verticillatum Panč. 3* The stem in its upper part is sequentially branch off. Flowers greenish, external slightly larger ................................................ ....... 2. - H. sibiricum L. ¹ developed a D. Peev From „Флора на НР България”, том VIII, БАН, София, (1982)

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Heracleum is a genus of about 60 species (depending on taxonomic interpretation) of biennial and perennial herbs in the carrot family Apiaceae. They are found throughout the temperate northern hemisphere and in high mountains as far south as Ethiopia. Common names for the genus or its species include hogweed[1] and cow parsnip.[2][3]

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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References: „Флора на НР България”, том VIII, БАН, София, (1982), Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Distribution in Bulgaria: (Conspectus of the Bulgarian Vascular Flora) = conspectus&gs_l= Zlc.
Distribution:

SPECIES:

Heracleum ternatum Velen. - х   х   х

 

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