In the song "The Return of the Giant Hogweed" by Genesis, from their 1971 album Nursery Cryme, the history of the plant's introduction to Britain is humorously recounted, and the dangers of the plant are portrayed facetiously in lines such as: "Turn and run! Nothing can stop them, around every river and canal their power is growing".
Also noted at the site are green figwort, Brooklime speedwell, wild angelica, opposite-leaved golden saxifrage, green alkanet, reed canarygrass, giant hogweed, bishopweed, celandine, and Himalayan balsam.
Heracleum mantegazzianum, a toxic plant native to central Asia, in family Apiaceae
Heracleum sphondylium | Heracleum mantegazzianum | Larval web in an umbel of ''Heracleum sphondylium | Heracleum (plant) | Heracleum |