Angelicas should not be harvested from the wild, best to grow them from seed from a reliable seed dealer. Angelica has many uses in alternative medicine . For more info on wildcrafting Angelicas, see The Dangers of Wildcrafting Angelicas . Rich thickets, bottomlands, moist cool woodlands, stream banks and swamps. Requires a deep moist fertile soil in dappled shade.
Plants are perennial if prevented from setting seed.
A tall, stout very ornamental and aromatic plant with large white flowers, growing to a height of 4 to 6 feet or more. It has a smooth, dark purple, hollow stem 1 to 2 inches round. The leaves are dark green, divided into three parts, each of which is again divided into three serrated leaflets, sometimes lobed. The lower leaves are larger sometimes 2 feet wide. All leaves have flattened, inward curved, stalks with clasping bases or sheathing to form an elongated bowl which holds water.