Sanicula arctopoides Hook. & Arn.

Sanicula arctopoides H. & A. Bot. Beech. Voy. 141. 1832
Plants prostrate or decumbent, 1-3 dm. broad, perennial from a long, slender taproot, glabrous or the nodes and foliage puberulent, the main stem short, 5-30 cm. long, bearing a cluster of leaves and several divergent naked branches, usually longer than the leaves; leaves deltoid in general outline, excluding the petioles 2-6.5 cm. long, 2.5-9 cm. broad, palmately 3-parted, yellowish, the primary divisions cleft, laciniate-dentate with slender, unequal, fringed teeth, or rarely the lanceolate, spreading segments subentire, doubly dentate; petioles flattened, shortly sheathing below, 2.5-7 cm. long; involucre of bracts like the leaves; involucel of 8-17 entire, acute, unequal bractlets, 5-18 mm. long, conspicuously exceeding the heads; fertile rays 1-4, 4-21 cm. long, the umbellets capitate, 6-17 mm. broad, sterile and fertile flowers in the same umbellet; flowers yellow; calyx cleft to the middle, the lobes deltoid, acute, shorter than the petals; anthers yellow, exserted; styles exceeding the bristles; fruit obovoid or subglobose, 2-5 mm. long, 2-3 mm. broad, shortly pedicellate, the bristles prominent above, wanting below, bulbous at the base; oil-tubes numerous, irregularly distributed; seed slightly flattened dorsally in cross section, sulcate on the dorsal surface, the commissural face concave.
Type locality: "Northwest coast of America," Menzies.
Distribution: Coastal, northern Oregon to central California (Elmer 4885, Heller 8444).