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Heracleum sibiricum L.

Apiaceae · Denmark, Finland +22

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Heracleum sibiricum, photograph Salicyna, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia CommonsHeracleum sibiricum, photograph Salicyna, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia CommonsHeracleum sibiricum, photograph Salicyna, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia CommonsHeracleum sibiricum, photograph Salicyna, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia CommonsHeracleum sibiricum, photograph Salicyna, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia CommonsHeracleum sibiricum, photograph Salicyna, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons 12 photographs ›

Summary

Heracleum sibiricum is a species of flowering plant in the family Apiaceae. It is native to Europe and western Asia, ranging from France and Italy to western Siberia and Mongolia.

Quoted from Wikipedia, "Heracleum sibiricum", CC BY-SA 4.0.

Cultivation

Not checked: GBIF's records were not asked (why, under the name), and the habitat climate is read only from them, so no sheet is derived.

Climate across the habitat

Not checked. GBIF's records were not asked (why, under the name), and the habitat climate is read only from them, so none is derived here. This is not a statement that no climate exists.

Natural habitat

Native range as published by WCVP.
Records not checked: GBIF's records were not asked, as said under the name.
NativeDenmark, Finland, Norway, Sweden, Czechoslovakia, Germany, Poland, France, Bulgaria, Italy, Romania, Baltic States, Central European Russia, East European Russia, North European Russia, South European Russia, Northwest European Russia, Ukraine, Altay, West Siberia, Kazakhstan, North Caucasus, Transcaucasus, Mongolia · introduced: Great Britain, Buryatiya, Irkutsk, Khabarovsk, Primorye, Yukon, New Jersey · regions are the level-3 units of the World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions, as Kew's World Checklist records ranges, some under historical names such as Yugoslavia or Czechoslovakia (how).
Kew's description“biennial or perennial” · “temperate” · quoted from WCVP, RBG Kew (CC BY 4.0); not derived here
Evidence usedGBIF's records not checked, as said under the name: so there are no points on the map, no map marker and no climate across the range; the range is Kew's. Not a statement that no record exists.

Photographs

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Photographs: Salicyna, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (6).

Similar habitat climate Not checked: GBIF's records were not asked (why, under the name), and the nearest habitat climates are read from the climate they give.

Other Heracleum 11 in the reference

Heracleum austriacum Heracleum austriacum Austrian Hogweed Photo: CC BY, Elias Heracleum candicans Apiaceae Heracleum dissectum Heracleum dissectum Pinnatifid-leaf hogweed Photo: CC BY, open_a_irHeracleum lehmannianum Heracleum lehmannianum Apiaceae Photo: Public domain, ThueHeracleum leskovii Heracleum leskovii Leskov's Cow-Parsnip Photo: CC BY, charlie chavianoHeracleum mantegazzianum Heracleum mantegazzianum Giant hogweed Photo: CC BY, Andre HosperHeracleum maximum Heracleum maximum Cow parsnip Photo: CC BY, snowglobinHeracleum persicum Heracleum persicum Persian hogweed Photo: CC BY, Geert BarentsenHeracleum sosnowskyi Heracleum sosnowskyi Sosnowsky's hogweed Photo: CC BY, Мирослав СоболевHeracleum sphondylium Heracleum sphondylium Hogweed Photo: CC BY, Joss Carr Heracleum villosum Apiaceae

Names & registers

Also known as Heracleum angustifolium; Heracleum sibiricum f. rarum; Heracleum sibiricum f. angustisectum; Heracleum sibiricum f. varbossanium; Heracleum sphondylium f. involucratum and 20 more. (WCVP, RBG Kew)

Under another author Heracleum sphondylium lusus varbossanium K.Malý is an older name of this species, not Heracleum sphondylium, a species of the reference. (GBIF Backbone)

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The record

Family
Apiaceae
Described by
L.
Native to
Denmark, Finland, Norway +21
Records
not checked · GBIF's records were not asked: the page has no GBIF key

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Where this page came from built 2026-10-22
Kew's names (WCVP) kew.names answeredas of 2026-06-04Kew's entry Heracleum sibiricum L. (plant_name_id 2846150), read from Kew's names file
GBIF species record gbif.species not askedGBIF's backbone holds no one accepted species of this name, and a name it holds only as another species' synonym is not taken for this one, so GBIF's records were not asked
GBIF synonyms gbif.synonyms not askedGBIF's backbone holds no one accepted species of this name, and a name it holds only as another species' synonym is not taken for this one, so GBIF's records were not asked
GBIF common names gbif.vernacular not askedGBIF's backbone holds no one accepted species of this name, and a name it holds only as another species' synonym is not taken for this one, so GBIF's records were not asked
GBIF occurrence records gbif.occurrences not askedGBIF's backbone holds no one accepted species of this name, and a name it holds only as another species' synonym is not taken for this one, so GBIF's records were not asked
WCVP native range wcvp.distribution answeredas of 2026-06-04
Habitat climate climate not askedGBIF's backbone holds no one accepted species of this name, and a name it holds only as another species' synonym is not taken for this one, so GBIF's records were not asked, and the habitat climate is read only from them
Wikidata wikidata answeredasked 2026-10-22found by Kew's IPNI identifier 843165-1, POWO 843165-1
Wikipedia wikipedia answeredasked 2026-10-22
iNaturalist photographs, wild inat.photos.wild not asked
iNaturalist photographs, cultivated inat.photos.cultivated not asked
GBIF media gbif.media not askedGBIF's backbone holds no one accepted species of this name, and a name it holds only as another species' synonym is not taken for this one, so GBIF's records were not asked
Wikimedia Commons commons answeredasked 2026-10-22
OpenAlex papers openalex not askednot yet asked for this reference; a later fill takes the papers from OpenAlex's snapshot

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