Damn it @Jay 6a Chicago.....I need your posts! 😏

Suzy

have you grown patrina? i had no idea it was so substantial at the base. It is huge!

I was perplexed it bloomed in spring ;i thought it was late summer bloomer.

Marie, I think your post/question deserves its own thread. For example.....

https://www.houzz.com/discussions/6451860/patrinia-anyone

I looked up the definition.of umbellifer because I thought it referred to the flowers of all species in the order Apiales which includes Patrinia and Valeriana. Umbellifer applies only to species in Apiaceae

We have photos. My locally native Angelica atropurpurea looks a lot like Angelica dahurica. I just collected seeds tor it a few days ago.

Angeliça atropurpurea

I just added Water Hemlock, Cicuta maculata So elegant but so deadly. Gardening on the edge. I'd love to grow the ferny leaved Cicuta bulbifera, but it grows in slow moving.water.

Angelica keiskei, Ashitaba.

I grew it a few years ago. Medicinal and beautiful.

Angelica sylvestris "Ebony"

I'd like to grow it. Can't get much more.purple than that.

Thaspium trifoliatum var trifoliatum

Still on my bucket list a lifer. A bronze Burpleum simply won't suffice.

The most magnificent umbellifer of all

Erigenia bulbosa. Harbinger of Spring , Pepper and Salt

I am savouring these photos....looking up each one for more info. My first Angelica was Giga/Korean. The dark colour just pops in the garden. I'm assuming that "Ebony" is a different variety?

The biennial nature of these plants makes it hit and miss as to what one sees each year.

Ebony is a cultivar of Angelica sylvestris. Angelica gigus is a species. I took another look at both of them and gigus has a natural purple color with deep purple flowers and it has more attractive leaves. Sylvestris normally has green leaves and white flowers. In most photos of ebony the flowers are a creamy white and purple mix. I suspect the photo of ebony that I posted is doctored? So I choose gigus. But there's no place to put it. Heracleum maximum is still my #1 umbellifer priority.

You must be a night owl like me Rouge.

I can't wait to have a blooming Cow Parsnip so I can watch all the pollinators that use it. I have more interesting photos but it will take a lot of scrolling to find them.

Heracleum maximum

Now the Apiaceae species that die in late spring after blooming are more work because they need filler replacements.. The native Polytaenia and Perideridia that failed at germination are the flower and die type.