Labiate, composite and umbelliferous plants are most common.

Erik answered without hesitation "that it was one of the family of umbelliferous plants," and described them in detail.

It formerly bore grass four feet high, because many umbelliferous plants, such as Heracleum spondylium, Spiraea ulmaria, Laserpitium latifolia, etc., grew in it.

Something in the odour of these umbelliferous plants, perhaps, is not quite liked; if brushed or bruised they give out a bitter greenish scent.