Sanicula odorata (Raf.) K. M. Pryer & L. R. Phillippe

Sanicula gregaria Bickn. Bull. Torrey Club 22: 354. 1895
? Triclinium odoralum Raf. Fl. Ludov. 80. 1817.
? Sanicula odorata Bickn. Bull. Torrey Club 24: 581. 1897.
Plants erect, 2-7.6 dm. high, perennial from slender, fascicled, fibrous roots, glabrous, the stems solitary or several from the base, dichasially branched above; leaves broadly triangular to ovate in general outline, excluding the petioles 3-12 cm. long, 5-20 cm. broad, palmately 3-5-parted, the primary divisions cuneate-obovate to lanceolate, acute, petiolulate, distinct or the lateral somewhat united, sharply serrate to incised-lobed above with spinulose teeth; petioles 8-30 cm. long; cauline leaves few, similar; involucre of conspicuous, foliaceous, palmately 3-5-lobed, leaflike bracts; involucel of inconspicuous, subscarious bractlets; fertile rays 3-7, 1-6 cm. long, the umbels regular, few-flowered; sterile and fertile flowers in the same umbellet, or the sterile in separate, peduncled heads in the axils of the stem or main branches; fertile pedicels about 2 mm. long; flowers greenish-yellow; calyx cleft to the middle, the lobes triangular-ovate, subobtuse with an inconspicuous central nerve, much shorter than the petals; anthers bright yellow, exserted; styles conspicuous, recurved, exceeding the bristles; fruits usually 3 in each umbellet, subglobose to obovoid, 3-5 mm. long, 2-3 mm. broad, distinctly pedicellate, minutely bristly or papillose, the bristles numerous, not crowded and arranged in rows, conspicuous above but rudimentary below; oil-tubes small, solitary in the intervals, 2-3 on the commissure; seed subterete in cross section, the commissural face plane, the scar linear.
Type locality: Van Cortlandt Park, New York, New York, Bicknell.
Distribution: Quebec to Florida, west to South Dakota and Louisiana (BiUmore Herb. 4816,