Angelica genuflexa Nutt. ex Torr. & A. Gray

Angelica genuflexa Nutt.; T. & G. Fl. N. Am. 1: 620. 1840
Angelica refracta F. Schmidt, Mem. Acad. St.-Petersb. VII. 12 2 : 138. 1868.
Stout, 4-18 dm. high, the foliage glabrous to somewhat scaberulous, the inflorescence hispidulous to pilose; leaves ovate to deltoid in general outline, excluding the petioles 1.5-3 dm. long, ternate-pinnate or biternate, the main divisions frequently reflexed and the rachis geniculate, the leaflets broadly ovate to ovate-lanceolate, acute to acuminate, sessile or petiolulate, 4—10 cm. long, 2-6 cm. broad, coarsely serrate to incised; petioles stout, 1-6 dm. long, sheathing at the base; cauline leaves similar, the sheaths conspicuously dilated and often bladeless, the uppermost petioles wholly sheathing; peduncles stout, 1-3 dm. long; involucre wanting; involucel of numerous linear to filiform, hispidulous bractlets, 5-10 mm. long, about equaling the flowers; rays numerous, 22-45, spreading-ascending, unequal, 2-7 cm. long; pedicels 5-15 mm. long, spreading-ascending, inconspicuously webbed; flowers white or pinkish, the petals oval, glabrous; ovaries hispidulous; stylopodium conic; fruit nearly orbicular, 3-4 mm. long, glabrous, the dorsal ribs filiform to narrowly winged, the lateral broader than the dorsal and about equaling the body; oil-tubes solitary in the intervals, 2 on the commissure; seed-face slightly concave.
Type locality: "Wappatoo Island, Oregon, and near Fort Vancouver, Washington," Nuttall, Distribution: Alaska and the Aleutian Islands, south to northern California; Siberia, Sakhalin, and the Kurile Islands. (Leiberg 701, Thompson 426, 11,196, Elmer 2765.)