*Angelica oreada* (Diels) M.Hiroe [image: Angelica oreada (Diels) M.Hiroe] <https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/103203949>
*an-JEL-ee-kuh* or *an-GEL-ee-kuh* -- like an angel, angelic ... Dave's Botanary <http://davesgarden.com/guides/botanary/search.php?search_text=Angelica> *or-ee-AY-duh* or *oh-REE-uh-duh* -- of the mountains ... compiled from web *commonly known as*: mountain angelica • *Bhutia*: ཁོ་མོག། khomog • *Dogri*: चोरा chora • *Garhwali*: चोरू choru • *Kashmiri*: चोहुर् chohur • *Kumaoni*: चोरू choru • *Ladakhi*: ལྕ་བ། lcha-ba, རྩ་རོང tsa ron • *Pahari*: चोरा chora • *Sanskrit*: चण्डा chanda • *Shina*: मौहर छड़ mauhar chhad *botanical names*: *Angelica oreada* (Diels) M.Hiroe ... *homotypic synonyms*: *Archangelica oreadum* Diels ... *heterotypic synonyms*: *Angelica archangelica* var. *himalaica* (C.B.Clarke) S.Krishna & Badhwar • *Angelica archangelica* f. *himalaica* (C.B.Clarke) Weinert • *Angelica archangelica* subsp. *himalaica* (C.B.Clarke) G.Singh • *Archangelica officinalis* var. *himalaica* C.B.Clarke ... and more at POWO <https://powo.science.kew.org/>, retrieved 29 May 2026 Bibliography / etymology / notes Links listed as references in the notes below, may not remain valid permanently. Portals / websites have a tendency to re-organize / revise their content, leading to change in URLs of pages in their site. Some sites may even close down at their own will. The bits about the languages of India <https://dineshvalke.blogspot.com/2023/12/languages-of-india.html> mentioned below are merely some bare facts gathered from the internet; just enough to satisfy curiosity about "where" could the listed names be best prevalent in India. All English transliterated names to be taken *sensu amplo*. ~~~~~ ENGLISH ~~~~~ written and spoken widely, in most parts of India *mountain angelica* - Flowers of India <https://www.flowersofindia.net/catalog/slides/Mountain%20Angelica.html>, retrieved May 29, 2026 ~~~~~ BHUTIA ~~~~~ written in: *Tibetan* (འབྲས་ལྗོངས་སྐད་) ... spoken in: *Sikkim* ... other names for this language: Sikkimese, Drenjongké, Dranjoke, Denjongka, Denzongpeke, Denzongke ... spoken by: Bhutia community of Sikkim *ཁོ་མོག། khomog* - for *Angelica archangelica* L. ... Ashok Kumar Panda (2007) Medicinal plants of Sikkim in Ayurvedic practice <http://www.sikkimforest.gov.in/docs/Ayurvedhic%20Medicines.pdf> - Department of Forest, Environment & Wildlife Management, Government of Sikkim ... (accessed: May 30, 2026) - A note on the taxonomic sharing of vernacular name: In official state forestry indices, like the Medicinal plants of Sikkim in Ayurvedic practice registry, published by the Government of Sikkim, the name khomog is explicitly mapped to *Angelica archangelica* (the umbrella synonym under which *A. oreada* is cataloged in the Eastern Himalayas). ... compiled from web. ~~~~~ DOGRI ~~~~~ written in: *Devanagari* (डोगरी) ... spoken in: *Jammu & Kashmir* ... spoken by the Dogras *चोरा chora* - for *Angelica archangelica* var. *himalaica* (C.B.Clarke) S.Krishna & Badhwar ... Bioresources - School of Biological Sciences - Database of Medicinal & Aromatic Plants of Jammu and Kashmir <https://bioresources.uok.edu.in/Main/ViewPage.aspx?Page=database\&active=lnk7> - University of Kashmir ... (accessed: May 29, 2026) ~~~~~ GARHWALI ~~~~~ written in: *Devanagari* (गढ़वळि) ... spoken in: *Uttarakhand* *चोरू choru* - for *Angelica archangelica* var. *himalaica* (C.B.Clarke) S.Krishna & Badhwar ... ICAR National Bureau of Plant Genetic Resources <http://pgrinformatics.nbpgr.ernet.in/seed/AccessionDetails.aspx?state=Uttarakhand&&cgrp=25&&cid=112>, Ministry of Agriculture (Govt. of India) ... (accessed: May 30, 2026) ~~~~~ KASHMIRI ~~~~~ written in: *Koshur* (Perso-Arabic كٲشُر), *Devanagari* (कश्मीरी), ... spoken in: *Kashmir* ... other names for this language: Koshur *चोहुर् chohur* - for *Angelica archangelica* var. *himalaica* (C.B.Clarke) S.Krishna & Badhwar ... Bioresources - School of Biological Sciences - Database of Medicinal & Aromatic Plants of Jammu and Kashmir <https://bioresources.uok.edu.in/Main/ViewPage.aspx?Page=database\&active=lnk7> - University of Kashmir ... (accessed: May 29, 2026) ~~~~~ KUMAONI ~~~~~ written in: *Devanagari* ... spoken in: *Uttarakhand* *चोरू choru* - for *Angelica archangelica* var. *himalaica* (C.B.Clarke) S.Krishna & Badhwar ... ICAR National Bureau of Plant Genetic Resources <http://pgrinformatics.nbpgr.ernet.in/seed/AccessionDetails.aspx?state=Uttarakhand&&cgrp=25&&cid=112>, Ministry of Agriculture (Govt. of India) ... (accessed: May 30, 2026) ~~~~~ LADAKHI ~~~~~ written in: *Tibetan* (ལ་དྭགས་སྐད་) ... spoken in: *Ladakh* *ལྕ་བ། lcha-ba* - for *Angelica glauca* Edgew. ... Haq SM, Yaqoob U, Calixto ES, Rahman IU, Hashem A, Abd Allah EF, Alakeel MA, Alqarawi AA, Abdalla M, Hassan M, Bussmann RW, Abbasi AM, Ur Rahman S, Ijaz F. Plant Resources Utilization among Different Ethnic Groups of Ladakh in Trans-Himalayan Region. <https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8468708/> Biology (Basel). 2021 Aug 26;10(9):827. doi: 10.3390/biology10090827. PMID: 34571704; PMCID: PMC8468708. ... (accessed: May 30, 2026) - for *Angelica* sp. ... A Glossary of Tibetan Medicinal Plants <http://molvray.com/ebooks/ebooks-mss/academic-mm/A_Glossary_of_Tibetan_Medicinal_Plants__MMolvray.pdf> by Mia MoIvray - a publication for the study of Tibetan Medicine published by the Library of Tibetan Works & Archives ... (downloaded: Sep 21, 2020) *རྩ་རོང tsa ron* - for *Angelica glauca* Edgew. ... Pandey, Devashish. (2024). The insight of Angelica glauca (Smooth Angelica) and Angelica archangelica - Growing condition and health benefits. <https://www.researchgate.net/publication/381010438> 14. 1097-1101. 10.52783/eel.v14i2.1443. ... (accessed: May 30, 2026) - A note on the taxonomic sharing of vernacular names: In high-altitude trans-Himalayan regions, local names — such as the Ladakhi/Bhoti ལྕ་བ། lcha-ba and རྩ་རོང tsa ron — are frequently documented in ethnobotanical literature under *Angelica glauca*. However, they are purposefully included in this registry for *Angelica oreada* due to a well-established phenomenon of folk-taxonomic sharing. *Angelica oreada* and *Angelica glauca* are close sibling species belonging to the Apiaceae family. They share an overlapping geographical distribution in alpine meadows, look physically similar, and possess the same intensely pungent, aromatic root profile. Within traditional indigenous healing frameworks like Sowa-Rigpa (Amchi medicine) and local foraging practices, communities categorize wild herbs primarily by their morphological appearance, high-altitude habitat, and therapeutic utility rather than minute macromorphological variations. Furthermore, because *Angelica oreada* was historically cataloged under synonyms like *Angelica archangelica* var. *himalaica*, older regional forestry records and botanical surveys regularly used these vernacular terms interchangeably across both species. Therefore, while modern botanical taxonomy splits them into distinct species, ethnobotanical and cultural taxonomy binds them together as variants of the same foundational Himalayan root asset. ... compiled from web. ~~~~~ PAHARI (or PAHADI) ~~~~~ written in: *Devanagari* (पहाड़ी), Perso-Arabic (پہاڑی) ... variety of languages, dialects and language groups, spoken in Himachal Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir, Uttarakhand *चोरा chora* - for *Angelica archangelica* var. *himalaica* (C.B.Clarke) S.Krishna & Badhwar ... Bioresources - School of Biological Sciences - Database of Medicinal & Aromatic Plants of Jammu and Kashmir <https://bioresources.uok.edu.in/Main/ViewPage.aspx?Page=database\&active=lnk7> - University of Kashmir ... (accessed: May 29, 2026) ~~~~~ SANSKRIT ~~~~~ written in: *Devanagari* (संस्कृतम्) ... used all over India by priests and scholars *चण्डा chanda* - K R Keshava Murthy - Floral Gallery of Himalayan Valley of Flowers & Adjacent Areas - First Edition 2011 - for *Angelica archangelica* L. ... WISDOM LIBRARY <https://www.wisdomlib.org/definition/canda> - the greatest source of ancient and modern knowledge ... (accessed: May 30, 2026) ~~~~~ SHINA ~~~~~ oral language, written in: Arabic (Nastaliq) (ݜݨیاٗ) / Urdu / Devanagari / English ... spoken in: *Gurez valley* of Jammu and Kashmir, *Dras valley* of Ladakh ... spoken by: Shina community *मौहर छड़ mauhar chhad* - for *Angelica archangelica* var. *himalaica* (C.B.Clarke) S.Krishna & Badhwar ... Many thanks to OM Prakash Vidyarthi for help with this name ... facebook <https://www.facebook.com/vomprakash/posts/pfbid02dk2YfnFjFtWbymUF19zEqgpGMdtHgwiXza8PFJWhKXJ6Y9m1ggvXSuUSyRmQDYekl> ~~~~~ KNOWN DISTRIBUTION in INDIA ~~~~~ Jammu and Kashmir, Ladakh, Sikkim, Uttarakhand - Hassler, Michael (1994 - 2026): World Plants. Synonymic Checklist and Distribution of the World Flora. <https://www.worldplants.de/world-plants-complete-list/complete-plant-list> Version 26.05; last update May 20th, 2026. Last accessed 29/05/2026 (dd/mm/yyyy). - Uttarakhand :: Observations in iNaturalist <https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?place_id=96903&taxon_id=1349025> - a place to record and organize nature findings ... (accessed: May 30, 2026) ~~~~~ Created on: 21:17 29-05-2026 ¦ Last updated: 21:33 30-05-2026 (DD-MM-YYYY) ~~~~~ Names compiled / updated at https://dineshvalke.blogspot.com/2026/05/angelica-oreada-diels-mhiroe.html Regards. 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