Common Name: CARROT FAMILY Habit: Annual to perennial herb [shrub, tree], generally from taproot. Stem: generally +- scapose, generally ribbed, hollow. Leaf: basal and generally cauline, generally alternate; stipules generally 0; petiole base generally sheathing stem; blade generally much dissected, occasionally compound. Inflorescence: umbel or head, simple or compound, generally peduncled; bracts present in involucres or 0; bractlets generally present in "involucels". Flower: many, small, generally bisexual (or some staminate), generally radial (or outer bilateral); calyx 0 or lobes 5, small; petals 5, free, generally ovate or spoon-shaped, generally incurved at tips, generally +- ephemeral; stamens 5; pistil 1, ovary inferior, 2-chambered, generally with a +- conic, persistent projection or platform at tip subtending 2 free styles. Fruit: 2 dry, 1-seeded halves (= mericarps), separating from each other but generally +- persistent to central axis; ribs on halves 5, 2 marginal, 3 to back; oil tubes 1--several per interval between ribs. Genera In Family: 300 genera, 3000 species: +- worldwide, especially temperate; many cultivated for food or spice (e.g., Carum, caraway; Daucus; Petroselinum); Bupleurum lancifolium Hornem. is historical garden weed; some toxic (e.g., Conium). Note: Mature fruit generally critical in identification, shape given in outline. Hydrocotyle moved to Araliaceae, Orogenia moved to Lomatium, Sphenosciadium moved to Angelica. Petroselinum crispum (Mill.) A.W. Hill is a waif. eFlora Treatment Author: Lincoln Constance & Margriet Wetherwax, except as noted Scientific Editor: Douglas H. Goldman, Bruce G. Baldwin.
Habit: Biennial, perennial herb, rhizomed or tap- or tuberous-rooted, glabrous or minutely scabrous. Stem: generally spreading to erect. Leaf: blade oblong-ovate to obovate, entire to ternately, palmately, or pinnately lobed, dissected, or compound. Inflorescence: heads simple, in cymes or racemes, dense, of bisexual and staminate (staminate only) flowers; bracts entire or lobed, < to > heads; bisexual flowers pedicelled or not, staminate generally long-pedicelled. Flower: calyx lobes prominent, persistent, occasionally fused; petals wide, yellow, purple, or +- white (pale red-orange), tips narrowed, generally lobed; styles long or short; ovary tip projection 0. Fruit: oblong-ovate to round, +- compressed side-to-side; fruit-halves +- cylindric, prickly to scaly or tubercled; ribs 0; oil tubes evident or obscure, regularly or irregularly arranged; fruit central axis not obvious. Seed: face flat or grooved. Etymology: (Latin: to heal) eFlora Treatment Author: Lincoln Constance & Margriet Wetherwax Reference: [Bell 1954 Univ Calif Publ Bot 27:133--230]
Sanicula tuberosa Torr.
NATIVE Habit: Plant 5--80 cm, slender; tuber 5--15 mm wide, spheric. Leaf: compound, ternate then 1--2-pinnate, green, glaucous, or +- purple; blade 2--13 cm, triangular to ovate, leaflets entire to deeply pinnately lobed. Inflorescence: peduncles 0.5--8.5 cm; bracts fused, 6--10, 1--3 mm, < heads, oblong to lanceolate; pedicel of bisexual flower 0, of staminate 2--7 mm, generally >> fruit. Flower: bisexual 3--5, staminate 4--10; calyx lobes fused proximal to middle, 0.3--0.5 mm, ovate, acute; corolla yellow; styles +- 3 × calyx lobes. Fruit: 1.5--2 mm, ovate to +- round, with rounded, unarmed tubercles. Seed: face flat. Chromosomes: 2n=16. Ecology: Open gravelly meadows, chaparral, woodland, pine forest; Elevation: 30--2700 m. Bioregional Distribution: NW, CaR, SN, ScV (Sutter Buttes), SnFrB, SCoR, TR, PR; Distribution Outside California: Baja California. Flowering Time: Mar--Jul Note: Variable. Jepson eFlora Author: Lincoln Constance & Margriet Wetherwax Reference: [Bell 1954 Univ Calif Publ Bot 27:133--230] Index of California Plant Names (ICPN; linked via the Jepson Online Interchange) Previous taxon: Sanicula tracyi Next taxon: Scandix
Citation for this treatment: Lincoln Constance & Margriet Wetherwax 2012, Sanicula tuberosa, in Jepson Flora Project (eds.) Jepson eFlora, https://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/eflora/eflora_display.php?tid=43190, accessed on April 18, 2024.
Citation for the whole project: Jepson Flora Project (eds.) 2024, Jepson eFlora, https://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/eflora/, accessed on April 18, 2024.
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