Aegopodium podagraria L., Sp. Pl. 265 1753. (Syn: Aegopodium angelicifolium Salisb.; Aegopodium podagraria subsp. nadeshdae Stepanov; Aegopodium simplex Lavy; Aegopodium ternatum Gilib. [Invalid]; Aegopodium tribracteolatum Schmalh.; Apium biternatum Stokes; Apium podagraria (L.) Caruel; Carum podagraria (L.) Roth; …….); Temp. Eurasia: Albania, Altay, Austria, Baltic States, Belarus, Belgium, Bulgaria, Central European Russia, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, East European Russia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Kamchatka, Kazakhstan, Korea, Krasnoyarsk, Krym, Netherlands, North Caucasus, North European Russia, Northwest European Russia, Poland, Romania, South European Russia, Sweden, Switzerland, Transcaucasus, Turkey, Turkey-in-Europe, Ukraine, West Siberia, Yugoslavia; Introduced: British Columbia, Connecticut, Delaware, District of Columbia, Føroyar, Georgia, Great Britain, Iceland, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Ireland, Japan, Kentucky, Khabarovsk, Maine, Manitoba, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, New Brunswick, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, New Zealand North, New Zealand South, Newfoundland, North Carolina, Norway, Nova Scotia, Ohio, Ontario, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Primorye, Québec, Rhode I., Sakhalin, Saskatchewan, South Carolina, Tennessee, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia, Wisconsin as per POWO;
Giersch from my garden in Ritterhude 25.5.2011: Giersch is traditional medicine against Gout and Rheuma. The leaves before flowering are also very good as vegetable and salad. Young leaves are tasty. At present because of the dangerous EHEK coli infection in north of germany and surrounding countries we are advised not to eat raw salad, cucumber, tomatos etc. from the market. So at present we have everyday Giersch salad, not all that nice, if you eat it every day. But my tomato plants are still small, having just flowers, and till they grow tomatos, it will take many weeks. Gierschsoup along with Sauerampfer is equally tasty. Sending Sauerampfer-fotos in a saperate mail. .
. References: https://powo.science.kew.org/ipni.org:names:5849-2 http://www.theplantlist.org/tpl/record/kew-2623499 https://www.gbif.org/species/3034620 https://plants.ces.ncsu.edu/plants/aegopodium-podagraria/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aegopodium_podagraria https://www.missouribotanicalgarden.org/PlantFinder/ |
Aegopodium podagraria (Germany/ Canada)
Updated on April 10, 2025