Angelica scabrida Clokey & Mathias

Angelica scabrida Clokey & Mathias; Clokey, Bull So. Calif . Acad. 37 : 8. 1938.
Stout, up to 15 dm. high, the foliage scaberulous, the inflorescence scaberulous; leaves deltoid in general outline, excluding the petioles 2-3.5 dm. long, ternate-pinnate, the leaflets lanceolate to ovate-lanceolate, broad, acute, petiolulate or sessile, 8-16 cm. long, 2-7 cm. broad, spinulose-dentate; petioles 1.5-2 dm. long, sheathing at the base; cauline leaves similar, reduced above with dilated and often bladeless sheaths, the uppermost petioles wholly sheathing; peduncles stout, 1-2.5 dm. long; involucre wanting or of a single sheathlike bract; involucel wanting or of a linear bractlet; rays numerous, 25-32, spreading-ascending, subequal, 1-7.5 cm. long, webbed; pedicels 2-12 mm. long, spreading; flowers white, the petals oblong-oval, scabrous on the back; ovaries scabrous; stylopodium low-conic; fruit oblong to cuneate, 8-14 mm. long, 4-5 mm. broad, sparingly scabrous to glabrate, the dorsal ribs filiform to obsolete, the lateral broader than the dorsal but narrower than the body ; oil-tubes solitary in the intervals or a pair in the lateral, 2-4 on the commissure; seed-face plane.
Type locality: Charleston Park, Charleston Mountains, Clark County, Nevada, alt. 22002400 m., I. W. & C. B. Clokey 554S.
Distribution: Charleston Mountains, southern Nevada.