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Robust tall, almost hairless perennial, to 2m; stems hollow, ridged, generally winged with purple. Leaves 2-3 pinnate, with oblong, sharply toothed segments; upper leaves reduced to large inflated sheaths and partially enclosing the developing umbels. Flowers white or pinkish, 2mm, in umbels 3-15cm across, with numerous rays; bracts few and soon falling, or absent. Fruit oval, (with 3 outstanding ridges) 4-5mm, with membranous wings.
Longhorn beetle pachytodes erraticus visiting a white flowering common hogweed plant.
Gespinstblattwespe an einer Pflanze mit Blüten
Single wasps eating yarrow nectar on a sunny summer day.
Delaware skipper (Anatrytone logan) on yarrow (Achillea millefolium) flowers in summer.
Red-tailed bumblebee (Bombus lapidarius) feeding on nectar from white clover, England, United Kingdom
A closeup of a fly perched on white flowers in sunlight
Ants crawl on the inflorescences Garden Angelica in the spring.
Aegopodium podagraria on a hot summer day
Different insects on the blooming anise.
A small white flower is being perched on by a black bug. The flower is part of a Valerian plant, surrounded by grass and other groundcover plants
Single wasps on yarrow, close-up.
Black and yellow mud dauber (Sceliphron caementarius) wasp on ground elder (Aegopodium podagraria) flowers in springtime.
Cowparsley and butter cup flowering together
Amegilla calens pollinating on white flowers
Cow Parsley and a lot of flies
White Autumn Flower Macro
Fools parsley in a grass meadow
Bee beetles (Tricius fasciatus) on on Umbelliferae flowers.
Macrophotography of a flower of gaura lindheimeri ' Whirling butterflies ', a beautiful perennial plant .
It is feeding on a white yarrow flower in a meadow setting, with wings closed.
Summer day: single hoverfly on a blooming white queen annes lace
Here on white coriander flowers.\nVery close-up side photo
wild carot (Daucus carota)
Meadow with lots of greenery and colorful flowers
Small beetle on a flower
The blossom of a Deadly Hemlock (Conium maculatum) taken as a macro shot.
Mint blossom flowers in a lush foliage and a hoverfly collecting nectar
A deciduous shrub of the Rosaceae genus, which blooms in spring. Kodemari（Reeves spirea）. The scientific name is Spiraea cantoniensis.
Medium to tall, rather bristly biennial; stem erect, purple or purple spotted. Leaves 2-3 pinnate, dark green, but eventually turning purple; leaflets oval, toothed. Flowers white, 2mm, in compound umbels which are nodding in bud, the petals hairless; bracts usually absent, bracteoles hairy. Fruit oblong, tapered towards the apex, 4-7mm, often purple.\nHabitat: Rough grassland, semi shaded places, on well drained soils, generally in low attitudes.\nFlowering Season: May-July.\nDistribution: Throughout Europe; absent from the Faeroes, Iceland, Norway, Finland and Spitsbergen.\n\nThis is a common Species in the Netherlands for the described Habitats.\nToxicity:\nChaerophyllum temulum contains (mainly in the upper parts and fruits) a volatile alkaloid chaerophylline, as well as other (probably glycosidally bound) toxins, the chemistry and pharmacology of which has, as yet, been but little studied. Externally, the sap of the plant can cause inflammation of the skin and persistent rashes. If consumed, the plant causes gastro-intestinal inflammation, drowsiness, vertigo and cardiac weakness. Human poisonings have seldom been observed, because the plant lacks aromatic essential oils that could lead to its being confused with edible umbellifers used to flavour food. It is, however, used occasionally in folk medicine. Animal poisonings by the plant are commoner than those of humans, pigs and cattle thus intoxicated exhibiting a staggering gait, unsteady stance, apathy and severe, exhausting colic, ending sometimes in death. \nHerbal medicine:\nChaerophyllum temulum has been used in folk medicine, in small doses, to treat arthritis, dropsy, and chronic skin complaints, and as a spring tonic. The early modern physician Boerhaave (1668–1738) once successfully used a decoction of the herb combined with Sarsaparilla to treat a woman suffering from leprosy – in the course of which treatment temporary blindness was a severe side effect following each dose (source Wikipedia).
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