Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Asterids: Campanulids: Apiales
WEAKLEY'S FLORA (11/30/12):
Sanicula smallii
FAMILY
Apiaceae
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Read more about Small's Sanicle at Vascular Plants of North Carolina.
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Sanicula smallii
FAMILY
Apiaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 140-03-004:
Sanicula smallii
FAMILY
Apiaceae
COMMON NAME:
Small's Sanicle, Southern Sanicle, Small's Black-snakeroot
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March Decatur County GA
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JK Marlow jkm090425_028
April Pickens County SC
Nine Times Preserve
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JK Marlow jkm090425_029
April Pickens County SC
Nine Times Preserve
Plant is a perennial, from thickened cordlike roots, per Weakley's Flora.
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JK Marlow jkm090425_032
April Pickens County SC
Nine Times Preserve
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JK Marlow jkm120415_074
April Pickens County SC
Clemson Forest
Leaf segments lance-elliptic to oblanceolate or obovate, serrate-dentate, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas.
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May Crawford County GA
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JK Marlow jkm210508_0190
May Oconee County SC
Ramsey Creek Preserve
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JK Marlow jkm210508_0190c
May Oconee County SC
Ramsey Creek Preserve
Umbellets with 7-9 flowers: 3 perfect & 4-6 staminate, per Weakley's Flora.
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JK Marlow jkm210508_0193
May Oconee County SC
Ramsey Creek Preserve
Leaves thick, somewhat fleshy & dark green, white veins often prominent, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas.
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JK Marlow jkm210516_0354
May Greenville County SC
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JK Marlow jkm210516_0408
May Greenville County SC
Calyx lobes shorter than bristles, divergent; petals white or greenish, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas.
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JK Marlow jkm130718_451
July McDowell County NC
Fruit sessile or subsessile, uncinate-bristled, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas.
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JK Marlow jkm130718_452
July McDowell County NC
Sepals on mature fruit somewhat spreading, immersed in adjacent fruit bristles, per Weakley's Flora.
COMPARE
fruit of Galium, Geum and Sanicula species
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JK Marlow jkm130718_456
July McDowell County NC
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JK Marlow jkm210903_3285
September Greenville County SC
WEAKLEY'S FLORA (11/30/12):
Sanicula smallii
FAMILY
Apiaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Sanicula smallii
FAMILY
Apiaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 140-03-004:
Sanicula smallii
FAMILY
Apiaceae
1316
Forb
Perennial/Biennial?
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Documented growing wild in GA NC SC
Common (uncommon in Coastal Plain)
Look for it in mesic to dry-mesic forests, per Weakley's Flora
Click here to see a more detailed map from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Herbarium,
or click here to see a map from SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
LEAVES:
Palmately compound: 5 leaflets (usually)
Alternate & basal
FLOWER:
Spring
White/ Greenish
Bisexual or staminate, usually in the same umbel
5-merous
Inferior ovary
Umbellets with 7-9 flowers: 3 perfect & 4-6 staminate
FRUIT:
Spring/Summer
Schizocarp of two mericarps
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