Angelica lucida L.

Stout, 5–10 dm; herbage glabrous; lower lvs long-petioled, 1–3 dm, the uppermost much reduced, with short, broad, sheathing petioles; lfls ovate, 4–7 cm, acute or obtuse, sharply and irregularly serrate, especially above the middle; umbels few, long-pedunculate; rays 20+, 3–10 cm, ascending, puberulent; fr elliptic or oblong, 5–9 mm, the ribs all very prominent, corky, acute but not winged, contiguous at base, the lateral ones somewhat the wider; oil-tubes numerous; seed loose in the pericarp. Beaches and rocks along the coast; L.I. to Lab.; margin of the Pacific Basin from Calif. to n. Asia. June–Aug. (Coelopleurum actaeifolium)

It is a temperate plant. It grows along the coast and in moist places. It grows in moist tundra.

The new emerging shoots are peeled and eaten usually with oil. The leaves are also cooked as a green vegetable. The roots are occasionally used as a spice.

Can be grown by seedlings.