Germination: Fall plant or cold stratify at 40F for 8 weeks. Then sow seeds just below the soil surface at 50F and water slow.

 

Likes moist swampy woodlands.

 

Cold stratify Angelica seeds in the freezer for 60 days (wrap in moist paper towel and seal it all in a ziplock container). Then leave seeds in 60-75 degree temperatures inside your home for another month. Repeat cold stratification one more time (60 days again) to simulate varying temperatures that occur in temperate climate zones when they fluctuate naturally (fall-winter-spring). Then plant them outside in the same manner as stated above.

 

 

The plant grows to 6 ft (180 cm) tall. The erect, branching stem is purple, smooth, hollow, and sturdy. The leaves are divided into segments. The total width of a lower leaf may be up to 2 ft (61 cm). The plant has white to greenish flowers in umbrella-like umbels. One umbel may have as many as 40 branches and be up to 8 in (20 cm) across. The stalks can be eaten like celery and the flavor is similar. Early American settlers boiled parts of the plant to make into candy and added it to cakes.