Plantae > Tracheophyta > Magnoliopsida > Apiales > Apiaceae > Sium > Sium latifoliumSium latifolium (greater water-parsnip)Synonyms: Cicuta latifolia (homotypic); Coriandrum latifolium (homotypic); Drepanophyllum latifolium (homotypic); Drepanophyllum palustre; Pimpinella latifolia (heterotypic); Selinum sium (homotypic); Sisarum germanorum; Sisarum macrophyllum; Sisarum palustre; Sium aquaticum (homotypic); Sium berula (heterotypic); Sium lancifolium (heterotypic); Sium latifolium f. angustatum; Sium latifolium f. incisum; Sium latifolium f. longifolium; Sium latifolium f. subcordatum; Sium latifolium f. subcrenatum; Sium latifolium f. submersum; Sium latifolium f. terrestre; Sium latifolium var. angustatum; Sium latifolium var. grandifolium; Sium latifolium var. longifolium; Sium latifolium var. univittatum; Sium latijugum; Sium latissimum; Sium longifolium (heterotypic); Sium macrophyllum; Sium palustre; Sium sulcatum; Sium vulgare (heterotypic) Sium latifolium is a species of flowering plant in the family Apiaceae known by the common names great water-parsnip, greater water-parsnip, and wideleaf waterparsnip. It is native to much of Europe, Kazakhstan, and Siberia. This plant grows in wet habitat such as swamps and lakeshores, sometimes in the water. It is a perennial herb with a hollow, grooved stem up to 2 meters tall. The herbage is green and hairless. The leaves are up to 30 centimeters long with blades borne on hollow petioles that clasp the stem at their bases. The inflorescence is an umbel of white flowers. |
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Central & Western Europe |
Austria, Belgium, Byelarus, Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Germany, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Poland, Russia, Slovakia, Switzerland, Ukraine, United Kingdom |
Palearctic |
Temperate Floodplain River and Wetlands |
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Eastern Iberia |
Andorra, France, Spain |
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Temperate Coastal Rivers |
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Northern Baltic Drainages |
Denmark, Finland, Norway, Russia, Sweden |
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Southern Iberia |
Portugal, Spain |
Palearctic |
Temperate Coastal Rivers |
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Upper Danube |
Austria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Poland, Slovakia, Slovenia, Switzerland |
Palearctic |
Temperate Floodplain River and Wetlands |
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Volga - Ural |
Kazakhstan, Russia |
Palearctic |
Temperate Floodplain River and Wetlands |
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Attributes / relations provided by ♦ 1Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics. Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database |
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0
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