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Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Asterids: Campanulids: Apiales
WEAKLEY'S FLORA (11/30/12):
Sanicula odorata
FAMILY
Apiaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Sanicula odorata
FAMILY
Apiaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (1968) 140-03-001:
Sanicula gregaria
FAMILY
Apiaceae
COMMON NAME:
Clustered Snakeroot, Clustered Sanicle, Yellow-flowered Snakeroot, Fragrant Snakeroot
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USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913 pnd_sagr6_001_lvd
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USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / USDA Wetland flora: Field office illustrated guide pnd_saod_001_lvd
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JK Marlow jkm120421_195
April Hendersonvlle County NC
Holmes Educational Forest
Some umbellets contain perfect and staminate flowers, others only staminate, per Weakley's Flora.
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JK Marlow jkm120424_500
April Pickens County SC
Jocassee Gorges
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JK Marlow jkm120424_563
April Pickens County SC
Jocassee Gorges
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JK Marlow jkm150425_824
April Sevier County TN
Great Smoky Mountains National Park
Yellow petals (vs. white or greenish) separate it from other Sanicula, per Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains.
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JK Marlow jkm150425_830b
April Sevier County TN
Great Smoky Mountains National Park
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JK Marlow jkm150425_830c
April Sevier County TN
Great Smoky Mountains National Park
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JK Marlow jkm150425_835
April Sevier County TN
Great Smoky Mountains National Park
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JK Marlow jkm120517_012
May Yancey County NC
Blue Ridge Parkway
Lvs irregularly or doubly serrate. Basal & lower stem lvs usually w 5 segments, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas.
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JK Marlow jkm120517_017
May Yancey County NC
Blue Ridge Parkway
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JK Marlow jkm160503_132
May Haywood County NC
Blue Ridge Parkway
Petals yellowish green, much longer than the calyx, per Weakley's Flora.
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JK Marlow jkm160516_681
May Haywood County NC
Corneille Bryan Native Garden
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JK Marlow jkm170510_811
May Polk County NC
Pearson's Falls
Staminate pedicels 1.5-3mm long. Calyx lobes deltoid, apices not sharp, per A synopsis of the genus Sanicula (Apiaceae) in eastern Canada (Pryer & Phillippe, 1989).
COMPARE
fruit of Galium, Geum and Sanicula species
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JK Marlow jkm170510_815
May Polk County NC
Pearson's Falls
Fruits globose to obovoid, with short but distinct pedicels, per A synopsis of the genus Sanicula (Apiaceae) in eastern Canada (Pryer & Phillippe, 1989).