Japanese name: エゾニュウ Scientific name:Angelica ursina
[Overview]
A perennial found in mountain grasslands and along streams, and in Hokkaido growing in grasslands near the coast.
The stem reaches 2–3 m in height; it is thick, hollow and erect, and branches in the upper part.
The leaves are alternate, 2- to 3-times ternately pinnately compound.
The leaflets are pinnately divided, and the lobes are oblong.
The leaflet margins are serrate.
The leaf stalks are swollen like a bag.
Large compound umbels at the stem tip bear about 50 flower stalks, each with about 30 small flower stalks.
The inflorescence bears many white 5-petaled flowers about 3 mm across.
The fruit is a flattened, broadly oblong mericarp with broad, thin lateral wings.
[Uses]
The young stems are salted and eaten in winter as a wild vegetable.
