This plant grew, as a volunteer from so soil that I had delivered last year. It took over half of one of my raised beds, which I happily obliged because of it's wonderful fragrance. (It smells like a craft fair in Autumn: not cinnamon like and I don't think I'd say licorice like either but maybe a combination of the two?)
The plant starts out looking like newly sprouted carrots and can quickly grow to three or four feet high. I pulled the plants at the end of the year and dried the little branches off of the main stem. Yes it smells that good! Any who, the plant showed up again this year and I cannot seem to properly identify it. For some reason I was under the impression that it was angelica archangelica, but now I'm not so sure. Then I thought maybe it was some type of fennel, but there's no bulbous part of the stem. Can anyone help identify this? I've included a picture of what the leaves look like when they're young and how the plant ends up looking towards the end of the season.
Thanks in advance