Angelica grayi (J. M. Coult. & Rose) J. M. Coult. & Rose

Angelica grayi Coult. & Rose, Contr. U. S. Nat Herb. 7: 154. 1900.
Selinum Grayi Coult. & Rose, Bot. Gaz. 13: 144. 1888.
Low and stout, 2-6 dm. high, the foliage and inflorescence more or less scabrous; leaves oblong to ovate in general outline, excluding the petioles 4-17 cm. long, 3-12 cm. broad, pinnate to incompletely bipinnate or ternate-bipinnate, the leaflets ovate to lanceolate, acute, petiolulate or sessile, 1-5 cm. long, 5-25 mm. broad, serrate; petioles 4-12 cm. long, sheathing at the base; cauline leaves similar, with conspicuously dilated sheaths, the uppermost petioles wholly sheathing; peduncles stout, 2-12 cm. long; involucre wanting or of a foliaceous bract; involucel of numerous lanceolate, acuminate, scabrous bractlets, 5-1 8 mm. long, often exceeding the flowers; rays numerous, spreading-ascending, 2.5-6 cm. long, webbed; pedicels 2-6 mm. long, spreading-ascending, webbed; flowers purplish-brown, the petals obovate, glabrous; ovaries glabrous; stylopodium conic; fruit oval, 4-5 mm. long, 3-3.5 mm. broad, glabrous, the dorsal ribs narrowly winged, the lateral broader than the dorsal but narrower than the body; oiltubes solitary in the intervals, several on the commissure; seedface plane.
Type locality: "Westons Pass, in high mountains of Colorado, alt. 3450 m.," Coulter. Distribution: Alpine rock slides of the Rocky Mountains, Wyoming to Colorado (Nelson 7923, Payson & Payson 4149).