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Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Asterids: Campanulids: Apiales

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/14/23):
Sanicula marilandica   FAMILY Apiaceae   Go to FSUS key



SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Sanicula marilandica   FAMILY Apiaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)

Sanicula marilandica

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America (Kartesz, 1999)

Sanicula marilandica

SYNONYMOUS WITH A synopsis of the genus Sanicula (Apiaceae) in eastern Canada (Pryer & Phillippe, 1989)

Sanicula marilandica

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 140-03-002:

Sanicula marilandica   FAMILY Apiaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH (ORTHOGRAPHIC VARIANT) Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)

Sanicula marylandica

 

COMMON NAME:
Black Snakeroot, Maryland Sanicle, Maryland Black-snakeroot


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image of Sanicula marilandica, Black Snakeroot, Maryland Sanicle, Maryland Black-snakeroot

USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913    pnd_sama2_001_lvd

        

image of Sanicula marilandica, Black Snakeroot, Maryland Sanicle, Maryland Black-snakeroot

Susan Laurie-Bourque in Pryer & Phillippe (1989)    slb_s_marilandica_a

        

Polygamous umbellet with sessile to subsessile mature fruits and pedicellate staminate flowers, per A synopsis of the genus Sanicula (Apiaceae) in eastern Canada (Pryer & Phillippe, 1989).

image of Sanicula marilandica, Black Snakeroot, Maryland Sanicle, Maryland Black-snakeroot

Susan Laurie-Bourque in Pryer & Phillippe (1989)    slb_s_marilandica_b

        

Bases of fruit bristles prominently bulbous & with a minutely warty-reticulate surface pattern, per A synopsis of the genus Sanicula (Apiaceae) in eastern Canada (Pryer & Phillippe, 1989).

image of Sanicula marilandica, Black Snakeroot, Maryland Sanicle, Maryland Black-snakeroot

Susan Laurie-Bourque in Pryer & Phillippe (1989)    slb_s_marilandica_c

        

Style conspicuously exserted and recurved and more than twice as long as sepals, per A synopsis of the genus Sanicula (Apiaceae) in eastern Canada (Pryer & Phillippe, 1989).

image of Sanicula marilandica, Black Snakeroot, Maryland Sanicle, Maryland Black-snakeroot

Susan Laurie-Bourque in Pryer & Phillippe (1989)    slb_s_marilandica_d

        

Staminate umbellet, per A synopsis of the genus Sanicula (Apiaceae) in eastern Canada (Pryer & Phillippe, 1989).

 

 

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/14/23):
Sanicula marilandica   FAMILY Apiaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Sanicula marilandica   FAMILY Apiaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Sanicula marilandica

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America (Kartesz, 1999)
Sanicula marilandica

SYNONYMOUS WITH A synopsis of the genus Sanicula (Apiaceae) in eastern Canada (Pryer & Phillippe, 1989)
Sanicula marilandica

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 140-03-002:
Sanicula marilandica   FAMILY Apiaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH (ORTHOGRAPHIC VARIANT) Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Sanicula marylandica

 

Find by SCIENTIFIC NAME:

3294

Forb
Perennial

Habitat: Mesic to dry-mesic nutrient-rich forests, per Weakley's Flora

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

Common in NC Mountains (uncommon in Mountains of GA & SC) (uncommon in NC Piedmont) (rare elsewhere in GA-NC-SC)

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LEAVES:
Palmately compound: 5 leaflets (usually)
Alternate & basal

FLOWER:
Spring/Summer
Greenish-white
5-merous
Inferior ovary
Bisexual or staminate, usually in the same umbel

Umbellets dimorphic: some polygamous and some staminate only

FRUIT:
Summer
Schizocarp of two mericarps

 

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