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Aegopodium
	Aegopodium podagraria
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Eudicots
Clade:	Asterids
Order:	Apiales
Family:	Apiaceae
Subfamily:	Apioideae
Tribe:	Careae
Genus:	Aegopodium; L.
Synonyms
	Aegopodion St.-Lag., orth. var. ; Chamaele Miq. ; Podagraria Hill ; Pseudopimpinella F.Ghahrem., Khajepiri & Mozaff. ;

Aegopodium is a plant genus of the family Apiaceae native to Europe and western Asia. It is represented by about twelve species, all are herbs. Flowers are compounded, umbels appearing in spring-summer and are visited by many types of insect pollinators.^[2] Fruit consists of two-winged or ribbed nuts that separate on ripening.

The most well-known member is the Aegopodium podagraria, the ground elder also known as snow-on-the-mountain, Bishop's weed, goutweed, native to Europe and Asia. It is variegated green and white that sometimes reverts to solid green within a patch. Small, white, five-petal flowers are held about three feet high, above the leaves, in flat topped clusters. Underground are long white branching rhizomes that vaguely resemble quackgrass. Regarded as an ecological threat, goutweed is aggressive, invasive and forms dense patches reducing species diversity in the ground layer. On the other hand, because of this, it is often used as a low maintenance ground cover.

Cultivation

Plants from this genus are frost hardy but drought tender, preferring moist well-drained soil in an open sunny position. They can be propagated from seed or rhizome.

Species

Aegopodium alpestre Ledeb.
Aegopodium burttii Nasir
Aegopodium decumbens (Thunb.) Pimenov & Zakharova
Aegopodium handelii H.Wolff
Aegopodium henryi Diels
Aegopodium kashmiricum (R.R.Stewart ex Dunn) Pimenov
Aegopodium komarovii (Karjagin) Pimenov & Zakharova
Aegopodium latifolium Turcz.
Aegopodium nadeshdae (Stepanov) Stepanov
Aegopodium podagraria L.
Aegopodium tadshikorum Schischk.
Aegopodium tribracteolatum Schmalh.

References

^ "Aegopodium L." Plants of the World Online. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Retrieved 2022-12-16.
^ Van Der Kooi, C. J.; Pen, I.; Staal, M.; Stavenga, D. G.; Elzenga, J. T. M. (2015). "Competition for pollinators and intra-communal spectral dissimilarity of flowers". Plant Biology. 18 (1): 56–62. doi:10.1111/plb.12328. PMID 25754608.