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Sweetcicely

Osmorhiza berteroi

Also called Mountain Sweet Cicely, Western Sweet Cicely, Chilean Sweet Cicely, Mountain Sweetroot, Sweet Cicely, Tapering Sweet Cicely, Western Sweet Root

Sweetcicely
Photo: Walter Siegmund (talk), CC BY-SA 3.0
Family
Apiaceae (Carrot family)
Grows as
Perennial
Native range
Aleutian Is. to W. & N. U.S.A., Chile to W. Argentina
Climate
temperate

About

Osmorhiza berteroi is a species of flowering plant in the family Apiaceae known by the common name mountain sweet cicely.

Where it grows

It has an amphitropical distribution being native to both temperate parts of North and South America. In the Northern Hemisphere it is found boreal zones from Alaska to Newfoundland, extending south to South Dakota, and in mountain ranges adjacent to the Pacific coast from the Alaska panhandle to California and Arizona. In South America it occurs in Magellanic forests in Argentina and Chile.

Other Osmorhiza plants

Aristate Sweetroot · California sweetcicely · Clayton's sweetroot · Bluntseed sweetroot · Longstyle sweetroot · Western sweetroot · Sweetroot

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Osmorhiza berteroi by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.

Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.

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