The Jepson Manual: Higher Plants of California

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Key to ANGELICA

N.B.: couplets are linked, e.g., 1. is linked to 1'.

  1. Leaf 2–3-ternate-pinnately dissected, segments linear or linear-oblong, entire, 2–10 cm
A. lineariloba
  1' Leaf 1–3-pinnate or -ternate-pinnate, leaflets lanceolate to widely ovate, generally serrate or dentate, rarely entire, 3–15 cm
 
    2. Bractlets conspicuous, 5–15 mm; rays, pedicels not webbed at base
 
      3. 1° leaflets generally sharply reflexed; fruit very compressed, ovate to round, 3–4 mm, ribs on back much narrower than marginal, thin
A. genuflexa
      3' 1° leaflets not reflexed; fruit cylindric, ± oblong, 4–9 mm, ribs subequal, widely, thickly corky-winged
A. lucida
    2' Bractlets generally 0 or inconspicuous; rays, pedicels webbed at base
 
      4. Basal leaves 1-ternate-pinnate
 
        5. Rays subequal, spreading-ascending to reflexed
A. callii
        5' Rays unequal, ascending
 
          6. Leaf oblong; leaflets entire to remotely serrate; rays 7–14; ovary minutely bristly; fruit oblong, 4–5 mm
A. kingii
          6' Leaf triangular-ovate; leaflets sharply serrate; rays 15–50; ovary generally glabrous; fruit oblong to ovate, 6–7 mm
A. californica
      4' Basal leaves 2–3-ternate-pinnate
 
        7. Plant glaucous
A. tomentosa
        7' Plant bright green at least on leaf upper sides
 
          8. Plant coastal; leaf thick, lower side often white-tomentose
A. hendersonii
          8' Plant not coastal; leaf thin, green, both sides generally glabrous
 
            9. Petals, ovary glabrous
A. arguta
            9' Petals, ovary hairy
A. breweri


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