WorldFloraDB - Sanicula europaea

Characteristics

A herb. It grows 560 cm tall. The leaves and stem form tufts from the rootstock. The leaves are lobed and dark green and shiny. The leaves have coarse teeth. The flowers are pink and in tight round bundles. The fruit are bristly.

Life form

perennial

Growth form

herb

Growth support

free-standing

Foliage retention

-

Sexuality

hermaphrodite

Pollination

entomogamy

Spread

epizoochory

Mature width (meter)

-

Mature height (meter)

0.6

Root system

-

Rooting depth (meter)

-

Root diameter (meter)

-

Flower color

Blooming months

Jan	Feb	Mar
Apr	May	Jun
Jul	Aug	Sep
Oct	Nov	Dec

Fruit color

-

Fruiting months

-

Nitrogen fixer

-

Photosynthetic pathway

c3

Environment

Woods, thickets and damp places, avoiding acid soils. Often found in chalk beechwoods and oak woods on loamy soils.

More

It is a temperate plant. It grows in shady places.

Light
Soil humidity
Soil texture
Soil acidity
Soil nutriment
Hardiness (USDA)

Usage

The shoots and leaves are cooked and eaten as a vegetable.

Uses	medicinal
Edible	leaves saps shoots
Therapeutic use	Alterative (unspecified), Antiseptic (unspecified), Astringent (unspecified), Hemostat (unspecified), Leucorrhea (unspecified), Lung (unspecified), Menorrhagia (unspecified), Pectoral (unspecified), Piles (unspecified), Resolvent (unspecified), Sore (unspecified), Stomach (unspecified), Stomachic (unspecified), Styptic (unspecified), Wen (unspecified), Depurative (unspecified), Vulnerary (unspecified), Astringents (unspecified), Diarrhea (unspecified), Dysentery (unspecified), Hemorrhoids (unspecified), Leukorrhea (unspecified)
Human toxicity	-
Animal toxicity	-

Cultivation

Can be grown by divisions or seedlings.

Mode	divisions seedlings
Germination duration (days)	-
Germination temperacture (C°)	17 - 21
Germination luminosity	-
Germination treatment	-
Minimum temperature (C°)	-
Optimum temperature (C°)	-
Size	-
Vigor	-
Productivity	-