| Scientific Name: | Angelica gigas |
| Common Name: | giant angelica |
| Family Name: | Apiaceae |
| Origin: | S.E. Asia / Japan / China |
| Hardiness Zone: | Zone 4: (-34 to -29 °C) |
| Plant Type: | Biennial, Herbaceous perennial |
| Mature Size: | 1.3 - 2.0m x 1.0 - 1.5m (height x width) |
| Habit: | Upright |
| Form: | Columnar |
| Texture: | Coarse |
| Landscape Uses: | Container planting, Cut flower or foliage, Dried flower or fruit, Group or mass planting, Medicinal plant, Perennial border, Specimen plant, Waterside planting, Woodland margin |
| Exposure: | Full sun only if soil kept moist, Part sun/part shade |
| Soil or Media: | Acidic, Humus rich |
| Leaves: | Compound, Alternate, Basal, Soft flexible, Pinnate venation, Glabrous, Tripinnate, Ovate, Serrate |
| Flowers: | Umbel, Purple, Dark-red, Aug-Sep |
| Fruit: | Schizocarp, Brown, Oct-Nov |
| Key ID Features: | |
| Stems ribbed, purplish, 1-2m tall; leaves 20-40cm long x 20-30cm wide; divided twice into toothed leaflets and pinnae; umbel 5-8cm wide with dark purple-red flowers in summer. | |