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Levisticum officinale (garden lovage)

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Wikipedia Abstract

Lovage (/ˈlʌvᵻdʒ/), Levisticum officinale, is a tall perennial plant, the sole species in the genus Levisticum in the family Apiaceae, subfamily Apioideae, tribe Apieae.
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Attributes

Allergen Potential [1]  Medium-Low
Edible [2]  May be edible. See the Plants For A Future link below for details.
Flower Type [2]  Hermaphrodite
Hazards [2]  Lovage is said to contain the alleged 'psychotroph' myristicine;
Lifespan [2]  Perennial
Pollinators [2]  Insects, Lepidoptera
Scent [2]  The leaves have a strong celery-like aroma.
Structure [3]  Herb
Usage [2]  An essential oil from the plant is used in perfumery;
Height [2]  5.904 feet (1.8 m)
Width [2]  39 inches (1 m)
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Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Dorset Heaths 14161 England, United Kingdom
Khopersky Zapovednik Ia 47103 Russia  
Moray Firth 373987 Scotland, United Kingdom  

Predators

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Peronospora crustosa[5]

External References

USDA Plant Profile

NatureServe Explorer

Citations

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♦ 1Derived from Allergy-Free Gardening OPALS™, Thomas Leo Ogren (2000)
♦ 2Plants For A Future licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License
♦ 3Kattge, J. et al. (2011b) TRY - a global database of plant traits Global Change Biology 17:2905-2935
♦ 4Biological Records Centre Database of Insects and their Food Plants
♦ 5Jorrit 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.
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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