FRAGRANT SANICLE
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Sanicula odorata (Raf. ) Pryer & Phillippe
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| [=Sanicula gregaria Bickn.] |
| Johnson County, Kansas |
| Perennial |
| Height: 8-32 inches |
| Family: Apiaceae - Parsley Family |
| Flowering Period: May, June |
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| Also Called: | | Cluster sanicle. | | Stems: | | Erect, branched distally, glabrous. | | Leaves: | | Alternate, basal and cauline; blade 3-, 5-, or (7-) palmately compound or lobed, nearly orbiculate in outline; leaflets obovate to oblanceolate, margins serrate to doubly serrate, sometimes deeply incised distally, surfaces glabrous. Basal leaves: petiole 3.2 to 10 inches; blade 1.2 to 6.8 inches long, 2 to 7.2 inches wide; leaflets .8 to 6 inches, ultimate segments .4 to 1.6 inch wide. Cauline leaves gradually reduced distally on stem; petiole present or absent; blade mostly 3-, or 5-palmately compound or lobed. | | Inflorescences: | | Terminal and sometimes axillary, compound umbels; peduncles 1.6 to 4.8 inches; involucral bracts (1-)2(-3); rays 2-3, .4 to 2.4 inches, unequal; umbellets with mixture of 12-25 staminate and 2-8 bisexual flowers or up to 60 all staminate flowers; involucel bractlets usually 8, lanceolate, .03 to .05 inch. Pedicels of bisexual flowers .02 to .04 inch, pedicels of staminate flowers .02 to .12 inch. | | Flowers: | | Calyx lobes triangular-ovate; .02 to .03 inch; petals greenish yellow, broadly obovate; stamens 5, filaments distinct; pistil 1; styles 2, often swollen at base; stigmas 2, styles of bisexual flowers longer than bristles of schizocarps. | | Fruits: | | Schizocarps, nearly globose, .12 to .2 inches long, .12 to .16 inch wide, densely bristly; bristles hooked, .04 to .08 inch, splitting at maturity into 2 mericarps; mericarps olive or brownish olive. Seeds 1 per mericarp. | | Habitat: | | Maple-basswood, floodplain, and oak-hickory forests, forested bluffs, stream banks. | | Distribution: | | East 1/3 of Kansas | | Origin: | | Native | | Uses: | | The Meskwaki inhaled the steam of a plant burning on hot stones to treat nosebleeds (Moerman 1998). | | Comments: | | Sanicula, to heal, alluding to medicinal properties and odorata, fragrant. |
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