Black Snakeroot (Sanicula)
Description
Sanicula is a genus of plants in family Apiaceae (or Umbelliferae), the same family to which the carrot and parsnip belong. This genus has about 40 species worldwide, with 22 in North America. The common names usually include the terms sanicle or black snakeroot. Sanicula comes from sanus, Latin for "healthy", reflecting the use of S. europaea in traditional remedies. They are perennial or biannual herbs , branched, foliate, essentially glabrous, 1-6 dm tall. Leaves orbicular to pentagonal, 2.5-10 cm in diameter, palmately 3-5-parted, with divisions ovate-lanceolate to obovate, acuminate, lobed and spiny-serrated; petiole envainador, longer than the lamina. Inflorescences in chapters with 8-15 flowers of which 1-3 are perfect and subsessile flowers and the rest staminated flowers and filiform-pedicelled, involucreinconspicuous, white-yellowish or white-greenish flowers; chalice with teeth lanceolate, acuminate, partially hidden by the aculea of the fruit; petals with the thin and inflexed apex; obsolete podopodium and carpopho. Subglobose fruit, 2-4 mm in diameter, slightly compressed laterally, the ribs obsolete, the surface densely uncinate-aculeada, vitas irregular or inconspicuous.
Taxonomic tree
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Domain: Eukarya
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Kingdom: Plantae
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Order: Apiales
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Family: Apiaceae
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Genus: Sanicula
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