- Angelica archangelica
- Type: Herb
- Season: Annual
- Heirloom: Yes
- Color: Green / White
- Height: 4' - 5' Tall
- Width: 2' Spread
- Uses: Medicinal
- Environment: Partial Shade
Notes: Angelica is cultivated mainly for its sweetly scented & edible stems and roots.
Grow Angelica herbs, from freshly harvested Angelica archangelica seeds. Angelica is a fragrant flowering herb that grows to a mature height of roughly 4 to 5 feet tall. The plants spread to a width of about 2 feet wide and display small greenish, yellow flowers through the summer months. The flowers form in clusters, or umbels, resembling Fennel or Queen Anne's Lace. These herbs have both culinary and medicinal uses, however they seem to be used more in medicine. Angelica is commonly used in tea to treat the gastrointestinal tract, respiratory tract, nervous system, and also to treat against fever, infections, and flu.
Categorized as a biennial flowering herb, Angelica archangelica will grow quickly within the first growing season, establishing a deep root system. The plants will later wither with the first frost, but will return the following Spring when all danger of frost has passed. The flowers will form in the second year of growth, as will its seeds and small fruits. The seeds can be collected from spent flower heads at the end of the Autumn season, to regrow the following year. If started early enough, some plants can successfully flower within 1 growing season.
Because Angelica herbs are fragrant, they will attract an array of insects to the garden, such as butterflies, bumblebees, honeybees and more. The plants tall growth can be troublesome in some gardens, but they can easily be placed as a backdrop plant, as to not disrupt other low growing plants.