| Scientific Name: | Aegopodium podagraria 'Variegatum' |
| Common Name: | goutweed, bishop's weed |
| Family Name: | Apiaceae |
| Origin: | Europe, Garden origin |
| Hardiness Zone: | Zone 3: (-40 to -34 °C) |
| Plant Type: | Ground cover, Herbaceous perennial, Invasive plant |
| Mature Size: | 0.2 - 0.4m x > 25m (height x width) |
| Habit: | Spreading |
| Form: | Creeping / Mat-like |
| Texture: | Medium - fine |
| Landscape Uses: | Container planting, Ground cover, Herb, Medicinal plant |
| Exposure: | Full sun, Part sun/part shade, Filtered shade, Deep shade |
| Soil or Media: | Acidic, Humus rich, Rocky or gravelly or dry, Well-drained |
| Leaves: | Compound, Basal, Soft flexible, Heavily veined, Pinnate venation, Glabrous, Trifoliate (ternate), Biternate, Elliptic, Oblong, Ovate, Crenate, Serrate |
| Flowers: | Umbel, White, Jun-Jul-Aug |
| Fruit: | Schizocarp, Brown, Jul-Aug |
| Key ID Features: | |
| Vigorous spreading herbaceous ground cover; leaves basal, ternate or biternate, petioles 5-15cm long, leaflets ovate to oblong, most 4-10cm long x 2-7cm wide, some deeply incised, creamy-white marginal variegation, petiolules 0.55-4cm long; umbels compound, 6-9cm wide, above foliage on long peduncles, florets white, 2-3mm wide, Jun-Aug. | |