Heracleum sphondylium
Heracleum sphondylium
Devesil
Perennial, 0,6-2 m, not aromatic. Stem 7-20 mm diam. below, sulcate, asperous to grey-pubescent. Lower leaves pinnate, ternate or lobed, the lamina glabrous to softly setulose or pubescent above, always hairy below , rarely grey-pubescent on both sides. Upper cauline leaves with narrowly oblong to ovate sheaths. Bracteoles linear. Rays 20-50, unequal, 4-15 cm, glabrous to pubescent. Flowers white or pale yellowish green, the outer ones radiant or regular. Ovary shortly hairy or glabrous. Fruits broadly obovate to orbicular, 6-11 x 7-9 mm, emarginate, glabrous or rarely setulose; dorsal vittae filiform or filiform-subclavate, less than 0,5 mm broad, ½ -¾ as long as mericarp; commissural vittae 1/3 -1/2 as long as mericarp.
1. Lower leaves pinnate or ternate; flowers white or greenish, radiant or not
2. Flowers pale yellowish-green, not radiant; lower leaves ternate, or pinnate with 5 leaflets subsp. ternatum
2. Flowers white, the outer ones radiant; lower leaves ternate subsp. montanum
1. Lower leaves lobed; flowers white, the outer ones ± radiant
3. Lamina of basal leaves more than 30 cm long, with triangular-lanceolate acuminate lobes, sparsely hairy and green; stem 1-2 m subsp. cyclocarpum
3. Lamina of basal leaves up to 20 cm long, with short rounded lobes, grey-pubescent above and below; stem less than 1 m subsp. artvinense
