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Heracleum sphondylium, commonly known as hogweed or common hogweed, is a herbaceous perennial plant in the carrot family Apiaceae, which includes fennel, cow parsley, ground elder and giant hogweed. It is native to most of Europe, western Asia and northern Africa, but is introduced in North America and elsewhere.
Hogweed is a common name for several unrelated plants. Hogweed may refer to: Heracleum, a genus in the carrot family containing several plants often called hogweed, including: Heracleum sphondylium, the common hogweed; Heracleum mantegazzianum, the giant hogweed; Heracleum sosnowskyi, Sosnowsky's hogweed; Heracleum persicum, Persian hogweed
Giant hogweed was still available for sale in Canadian nurseries as late as 2005. On the west coast of North America, H. mantegazzianum appeared in Oregon, Washington, and southwestern Canada, but it is not clear how the species found its way into this region. The first reports of giant hogweed in British Columbia were published in the 1930s.
Heracleum mantegazzianum, giant hogweed, native to the western Caucasus region of Eurasia, a serious invasive species in many areas of Europe and North America; Heracleum sosnowskyi, Sosnowsky's hogweed, native to the eastern Caucasus, a common weed throughout Europe and Asia; Heracleum persicum, Persian hogweed, native to Iran, Iraq, and Turkey
Heracleum sosnowskyi, or Sosnowsky's hogweed, is a monocarpic perennial herbaceous flowering plant in the carrot family Apiaceae. Its native range includes the central and eastern Caucasus regions and Transcaucasia. The native ranges of Heracleum sosnowskyi and H. mantegazzianum, a close relative, overlap in the Caucasus region. [1]
Heracleum persicum, commonly known as Persian hogweed or by its native name golpar (Persian: گلپر), is a species of hogweed, a perennial herbaceous plant in the carrot family Apiaceae. It grows wild in humid mountainous regions in Iran and some adjacent areas.
Portulaca oleracea (common purslane, also known as little hogweed, or pursley) [3] is an annual (actually tropical perennial in USDA growing zones 10–11) succulent in the family Portulacaceae. Description
Rhagonycha fulva is commonly found on open-structured flowers and can be spotted in grassland, woodland, along hedgerows and in parks and gardens, often on flower species such as Anthriscus sylvestris (Cow Parsley) and others of the genus Heracleum (Hogweed) and the family Asteraceae during the summer. [8]