Broad-leaved sermountain

Value for beekeeping

Broad-leaved sermountain is a robust umbellifer up to 1.5 metres tall that grows along woodland edges, in clearings and on stony grassland in the limestone mountains of the Alps, the Pyrenees, the Carpathians and central Europe. It has large bluish-green leaves with broad segments and big white umbels with 20–40 rays. Because the nectar lies on an exposed disc, flies, beetles, wasps and honey bees can use it easily.

Flowering

It flowers in July–August, adding to the midsummer variety of flowers around mountain apiaries.

Honey and pollen

It has no honey of its own; it is a minor component of mixed mountain and woodland-edge honeys. Pollen is also collected.

Note for the beekeeper

It does not grow wild in Turkey. For mountain beekeepers in Europe it is a species that reflects the diversity of limestone woodland edges; it does not create a significant flow on its own, but it adds to continuity through the summer.