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Cow Parsnip
Heracleum lanatum
These are large plants, named after the ancient Greek hero Hercules.
They have huge leaves -- each leaf may be well over a foot across. The base
of each leaf forms a sheath around the stem.
These plants grow in moist, partly shady areas.
The flowers grow in many umbrella shaped clusters (umbels) on the top
surface of the big plant. Each of these umbels is about eight or ten inches
across, and each is itself a cluster of smaller umbels (of around an inch or
so in diameter). The umbels are irregular, in that the outer flowers of each
umbel have larger petals than the inner flowers.
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Albion Basin
Wasatch Mountains
Salt Lake County, Utah
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Photographed
by Sandra Bray
August 1999
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