Plantae > Tracheophyta > Magnoliopsida > Apiales > Apiaceae > Ligusticum > Ligusticum scoticumLigusticum scoticum (Scottish licorice-root)Ligusticum scoticum, known as Scots lovage, or Scottish licorice-root, is a perennial plant of the family Umbelliferae (Apiaceae) found near the coasts of northern Europe and north-eastern North America. It grows up to 60 centimetres (24 in) tall and is found in rock crevices and cliff-top grassland. It is closely related to, and possibly conspecific with, Ligusticum hultenii from the coast of the northern Pacific Ocean. The plant is edible, with a flavour resembling parsley or celery. |
| Edible [1] | May be edible. See the Plants For A Future link below for details. | | Flower Type [1] | Hermaphrodite | | Lifespan [1] | Perennial | | Pollinators [1] | Insects, Lepidoptera | | Scent [1] | All parts of the plant are aromatic when bruised, the aroma being likened to a mixture of parsley, angelica and pear skin. | | Structure [3] | Herb |  | | Height [1] | 24 inches (0.6 m) | | | Light Preference [2] | Mostly Sunny | | Soil Acidity [2] | Neutral | | Soil Fertility [2] | Intermediate | | Soil Moisture [2] | Moist |
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Acadia National Park |
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35996 |
Maine, United States |
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Andakill Protected Habitat Area |
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7626 |
Iceland |
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Beinn Eighe National Nature Reserve |
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Scotland, United Kingdom |
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Berwickshire and North Northumberland Coast |
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160731 |
England/Scotland, United Kingdom |
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Caithness and Sutherland Peatlands |
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354692 |
Scotland, United Kingdom |
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Dornoch Firth and Morrich More |
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21499 |
Scotland, United Kingdom |
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East Caithness Cliffs |
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1094 |
Scotland, United Kingdom |
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Firth of Lorn |
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51830 |
Scotland, United Kingdom |
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Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve |
Ib |
591068 |
Alaska, United States |
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Hoy |
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23474 |
Scotland, United Kingdom |
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Isle of Rum National Nature Reserve |
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Scotland, United Kingdom |
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Lake Clark National Park and Preserve |
Ib |
386679 |
Alaska, United States |
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Loch Moidart and Loch Shiel Woods |
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4341 |
Scotland, United Kingdom |
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Luce Bay and Sands |
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120487 |
Scotland, United Kingdom |
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Magadansky Zapovednik |
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2332834 |
Russia |
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Moray Firth |
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373987 |
Scotland, United Kingdom |
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Mousa |
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1311 |
Scotland, United Kingdom |
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North Harris |
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32450 |
Scotland, United Kingdom |
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Ronas Hill – North Roe |
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12110 |
Scotland, United Kingdom |
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Rum |
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26775 |
Scotland, United Kingdom |
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St Kilda |
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62932 |
Scotland, United Kingdom |
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Taynish National Nature Reserve |
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Scotland, United Kingdom |
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Tingon |
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1407 |
Scotland, United Kingdom |
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Tory Island SPA |
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1501 |
Ireland |
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Attributes / relations provided by ♦ 1Plants For A Future licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License♦ 2ECOFACT 2a Technical Annex - Ellenberg’s indicator values for British Plants, M O Hill, J O Mountford, D B Roy & R G H Bunce (1999) ♦ 3Kattge, J. et al. (2011b) TRY - a global database of plant traits Global Change Biology 17:2905-2935 ♦ 4Jorrit 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. ♦ 5Butterflies of Canada, Canadian Biodiversity Information Facility ♦ 6Biological Records Centre Database of Insects and their Food Plants♦ 7Ben-Dov, Y., Miller, D.R. & Gibson, G.A.P. ScaleNet 4 November 2009 |
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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