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WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Sanicula odorata
FAMILY
Apiaceae
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Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
Read more about Clustered Snakeroot at Vascular Plants of North Carolina.
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Sanicula odorata
FAMILY
Apiaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 140-03-001:
Sanicula gregaria FAMILY Apiaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Sanicula gregaria
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 (2012).
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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 (Smith, 1998).
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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 (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968).
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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 (2012).
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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).
WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Sanicula odorata
FAMILY
Apiaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Sanicula odorata
FAMILY
Apiaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 140-03-001:
Sanicula gregaria
FAMILY
Apiaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Sanicula gregaria
3293
Forb
Perennial
Habitat: Mesic to dry-mesic nutrient-rich forests, per Weakley's Flora
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Common in Mountains, uncommon in Piedmont & Coastal Plain
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LEAVES:
Palmately compound: 5 leaflets (usually)
Alternate & basal
FLOWER:
Spring/Summer
Yellow
Bisexual or staminate, usually in the same umbel
5-merous
Inferior ovary
Umbels with 3 pedicellate perfect flowers & 15 or fewer staminate flowers
FRUIT:
Summer
Schizocarp of two mericarps
TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!
- Newcomb's Wildflower Guide (Newcomb, 1977) p426
- Wildflowers of the Atlantic Southeast (Cotterman, Waitt, & Weakley, 2019) p259
- Wildflowers in the Field and Forest: Northeastern US (Clemants & Gracie, 2006) p176
- Field Guide to the Wildflowers of Georgia (Chafin, 2016) p037
- Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains (Smith, 1998) p113