Photographs: Ballingeary, Co. Cork

Hogweed Heracleum sphondylium Feabhrán Family: Apiaceae Flowering time: June-September. Biennial. Native. White flowers with deeply notched petals in flat-topped umbels (flowers can be pink-tinged) followed by oval fruit. Leaves are rough, grey-green, the bases clasping stem. Pinnate with coarse-toothed leaflets, usually lobed. Stems hollow, ridged, hairy. To 200 cm Very common on roadsides, hedgebanks, grassland and in woods. Similar: Angelica, Angelica sylvestris and Giant Hogweed, Heracleum mantegazzianum. To 5m tall

Hogweed, Heracleum sphondylium, Feabhrán