Heracleum sphondylium

Photo © Carl Farmer
8 Aug 2002 Portree, Isle of Skye

Very common in waste ground, rough vegetation, roadsides, forestry rides, woodland, gardens.

Flower umbels c 5-15 cm across.

Skye ID: Petals of outer flowers very unequal and deeply notched.

Other features: No or few lower bracts, several reflexed upper bracts. Leaves very coarse and hairy, their stalks becoming a sheath near the stem.

	Photo © Carl Farmer 8 Aug 2002 Portree, Isle of Skye
	Umbels going over from flower to fruit

	Photo © Carl Farmer 23 Sep 2002 Glenbrittle, Isle of Skye
	Unusual autumn regrowth with single-flowered umbels

Skye Flora