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WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/14/23):
Sanicula marilandica
FAMILY
Apiaceae
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Read more about Black Snakeroot at Vascular Plants of North Carolina.
The styles of Sanicula marilandica are more than twice as long as the calyx, conspicuously exserted from calyx and recurved; the umbellets dimorphic, some polygamous and others staminate only... Learn more from Pryer & Philippe (1989).
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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USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913 pnd_sama2_001_lvd
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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).
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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).
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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).
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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
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)
CLICK HERE to see a map, notes, and images from Weakley's Flora of the Southeastern US.
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
TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!
- Newcomb's Wildflower Guide (Newcomb, 1977) p426
- Wildflowers of the Atlantic Southeast (Cotterman, Waitt, & Weakley, 2019) p151
- Wildflowers in the Field and Forest: Northeastern US (Clemants & Gracie, 2006) p316
- Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains (Smith, 1998) p113
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