Heracleum moellendorffii Hance

Berce (fr)

Species

Angiosperms > Apiales > Apiaceae > Heracleum

Characteristics

Plants stout, 1–2 m tall, hispidulous throughout. Root cylindrical. Stem solitary, branched. Basal and lower petioles 10–30 cm; leaf blade ternate or ternate-pinnate; leaflets 3–5, broadly ovate, 10–20 × 7–18 cm, 3–5-lobed, margin sharply serrate. Upper leaves sessile on expanded sheaths. Peduncles 4–15 cm; bracts few, linear-lanceolate, or caducous; rays 12–30, unequal; bracteoles 5–10, lanceolate; flowers more than 20 per umbellule. Calyx teeth obsolete. Petals white, on outer flowers of umbels radiant, enlarged, ca. 7 mm. Fruit obovoid, 6–8 × 5–7 mm, sparsely hispidulous or almost glabrous; dorsal ribs filiform, lateral ribs broadly winged, wings less than width of mericarp body; vittae solitary in each furrow, 2 on commissure, clavate, extending to 1/2 length of mericarp. Seed face plane. Fl. Jul–Aug, fr. Aug–Sep.
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A herb. It keeps growing from year to year. It grows 1 m high. The roots are cone shaped and greyish-yellow. The stems are cylinder shaped and hollow. They have lines along them. The leaves are on long leaf stalks. These form a sheath at the base. The leaf blade is oval and 16-19 cm long by 15-16 cm wide. There are leaflets along the stalk. The side leaflets are 8-9 cm long by 5-6 cm wide. They have lobes along them.
Life form perennial
Growth form herb
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Foliage retention deciduous
Sexuality hermaphrodite
Pollination entomogamy
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Mature height (meter) 1.0
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Environment

It is a temperate plant. It is native to north eastern China and into Korea. It grows in alpine meadows and along streams up to 3,200 m above sea level. In Sichuan and Yunnan.
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Hills, low mountains and lowland in C. and S. Japan. Open forests, forest margins, shaded valleys or stream sides at elevations up to 3200 metres in China.
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Hardiness (USDA) 5-9

Usage

Young plants are gathered as a potherb.
Uses fodder food medicinal potherb silage
Edible leaves stems
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Cultivation

Can be grown by seedlings.
Mode seedlings
Germination duration (days) 30 - 90
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Distribution

Heracleum moellendorffii world distribution map, present in China and Japan

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:843093-1
WFO ID wfo-0000720141
COL ID 6M43F
BDTFX ID 102042
INPN ID 611136
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Synonyms

Heracleum moellendorffii Heracleum microcarpum Heracleum morifolium Heracleum nipponicum Heracleum dissectum subsp. moellendorffii Heracleum lanatum subsp. moellendorffii Heracleum moellendorffii var. moellendorffii Heracleum sphondylium var. nipponicum Heracleum barbatum subsp. moellendorffii

Lower taxons

Heracleum moellendorffii var. subbipinnatum Heracleum moellendorffii var. sagenifolium Heracleum moellendorffii var. paucivittatum