Key to Cicuta
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(For a list of species in Cicuta, use the above link.)
Jepson Manual glossary definitions can be seen by moving your cursor over words underlined with dots.
1. Fruit generally round,
rib width >> intervals between; areas defined by major veinlets on
abaxial leaf Organ arising from a stem, generally composed of a stalk (petiole) and a flat, expanded, green, photosynthetic area (blade); distinguished from a leaflet by the presence in its axil of a bud, branch, thorn, or flower; sometimes with lateral, basal appendages (stipules); either simple (toothed, lobed, or dissected but not divided into leaflets) or compound (divided into leaflets).
surface large, generally elongate
..... C. douglasii 1' Fruit generally
ovate Egg-shaped (i.e., widest below the middle) in two dimensions (i.e., in one plane), as a leaf.
, rib width generally <= intervals between; areas defined by major veinlets on abaxial leaf surface small, generally ± circular or ± square, less often ± elongate
..... C. maculata
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