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Osmorhiza brachypoda
California sweetcicely is a hairy, aromatic perennial herb of the carrot family native to wooded and chaparral slopes in California and Arizona. It is a wild woodland plant rather than a common garden subject, and it does best in dappled shade with moist, well-drained soil.
Osmorhiza brachypoda is a species of flowering plant in the family Apiaceae known by the common name California sweetcicely.
It is native to mountainous and wooded areas of California and Arizona, at elevations from 200–2,000 meters (660–6,560 ft). Habitats include chaparral and woodlands and coniferous forests.
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Osmorhiza brachypoda by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
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.
