Apiaceae
Hogfennel
Peucedanum palustre
- Family
- Apiaceae
- Genus
- Peucedanum
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Common names
By language (20)
- Belarusian
- Дзікая пятрушка балотная, Калестанія балотная
- Bulgarian
- Блатна самодивска трева
- Czech
- Smldník bahenní
- Danish
- Kær-Svovlrod
- Dutch
- Melkeppe
- English
- Hogfennel, Milk parsley, Marsh Hog’s fennel, Milk-parsley
- Estonian
- Soo-piimputk
- Finnish
- Luhtasuoputki
- French
- Peucédan des marais
- German
- Sumpf-Haarstrang, Sumpfhaarstrang
- Hungarian
- Mocsári kocsord
- Lithuanian
- Pelkinis saliavas
- Norwegian Bokmål
- Mjølkerot
- Norwegian Nynorsk
- Mjølkerot
- Polish
- Gorysz błotny
- Russian
- Горичник болотный
- Slovak
- Smldník močiarny
- Slovenian
- Močvirski silj
- Swedish
- Kärrsilja
- Welsh
- Ffenigl-y-moch llaethog
Synonyms
- Athamanta flexuosa Juss. ex DC.
- Athamanta pisana Savi
- Calestania palustris (L.) Koso-Pol.
- Callisace schiefereckii Hoffm.
- Cnidium palustre (L.) Rchb.
- Laserpitium simplex Boeber
- Libanotis annua F.H.Wigg.
- Oreoselis pisana (Savi) Raf.
- Peucedanum crouanorum Boreau ex Nyman
- Peucedanum idanense Gand.
- Peucedanum palustre var. angustifolia (Rchb.) Rouy & E.G.Camus
- Peucedanum palustre var. filifolium Brenner
- Peucedanum palustre var. slinifolium Brenner
- Peucedanum schiwereckii Eichw.
- Peucedanum sylvestre DC.
- Selinum cantabrigense Fisch. ex DC.
- Selinum intermedium Besser
- Selinum lactescens Gilib.
- Selinum palustre L.
- Selinum plinii (Spreng.) Paxton
- Selinum schiwerekii Besser
- Selinum sublactescens Gilib.
- Selinum sylvestre L.
- Selinum tysselinum Crantz
- Sium virens hort. ex Steud.
- Thyselium palustre (L.) Raf.
- Thysselinum angustifolium Rchb.
- Thysselinum crouanorum Boreau
- Thysselinum palustre (L.) Hoffm.
- Thysselinum palustre var. macropterum Rupr.
- Thysselinum palustre var. sylvestre (L.) Klett & Richt.
- Thysselinum plinii Spreng.
- Thysselinum schiwerekii (Besser) Besser
- Thysselinum sylvestre Hoffm.
Characteristics
- Growth habit
- Forb/herb
- Lifespan
- Perennial
- In the US and Canada
- Lower 48 states: introduced
Photos

Photo: Kristian Peters -- Fabelfroh 13:44, 15 December 2005, CC BY-SA 3.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: Kristian Peters -- Fabelfroh 13:43, 15 December 2005, CC BY-SA 3.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: Kristian Peters -- Fabelfroh 13:44, 15 December 2005, CC BY-SA 3.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: Kristian Peters -- Fabelfroh 13:46, 15 December 2005, CC BY-SA 3.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: Kristian Peters -- Fabelfroh 13:46, 15 December 2005, CC BY-SA 3.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: Agnieszka Kwiecień, Nova, CC BY-SA 4.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: Agnieszka Kwiecień, Nova, CC BY-SA 4.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: Agnieszka Kwiecień, Nova, CC BY-SA 4.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: Krzysztof Ziarnek, Kenraiz, CC BY-SA 4.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: Krzysztof Ziarnek, Kenraiz, CC BY-SA 4.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: Krzysztof Ziarnek, Kenraiz, CC BY-SA 4.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: Krzysztof Ziarnek, Kenraiz, CC BY-SA 4.0, from Wikimedia Commons
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Sources: classification, synonyms from World Flora Online Plant List (2026-06, CC0 1.0); common names, popularity from Wikidata (2026-10-26, CC0 1.0); common names, US characteristics from USDA PLANTS Database (2025-05-29, CC0 1.0). About our plant data.