| Aegopodium podagraria | |
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| Illustration from Otto Wilhelm Thomé's Flora von Deutschland, Österreich und der Schweiz (1885) | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Asterids |
| Order: | Apiales |
| Family: | Apiaceae |
| Genus: | Aegopodium |
| Species: | A. podagraria
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| Binomial name | |
| Aegopodium podagraria | |
| Synonyms[1] | |
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Aegopodium podagraria, commonly called ground elder, is a species of flowering plant in the carrot family Apiaceae that grows in shady places. The name "ground elder" comes from the superficial similarity of its leaves and flowers to those of elder (Sambucus), which is not closely related. Other common names include herb gerard, bishop's weed, goutweed, gout wort, snow-in-the-mountain, English masterwort[2] and wild masterwort.[2] It is the type species of the genus Aegopodium. It is native to Europe and Asia, but has been introduced around the world as an ornamental plant, where it occasionally poses an ecological threat as an invasive exotic plant.[3]
- ^ "Aegopodium podagraria L.". World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Retrieved 5 December 2014 – via The Plant List. Note that this website has been superseded by World Flora Online
- ^ a b Grieve, Maud (1931). "Goutweed (Aegopodium podagraria)". A Modern Herbal – via Botanical.com.
- ^ "Goutweed (Aegopodium podgraria)". Plant Conservation Alliance, Alien Plant Working Group. Archived from the original on 2017-04-02.