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Bluntseed sweetroot

Osmorhiza depauperata

Also called Blunt Sweet Cicely, Blunt Fruit Sweet Cicely, Blunt Seed Sweet Cicely, Spreading Sweet Cicely, Blunt Seed Sweet Root, Lesser Sweet Cicely, Blunt Fruited Sweet Cicely

Bluntseed sweetroot
Photo: Andrey Zharkikh from Salt Lake City, USA, CC BY 2.0

Bluntseed sweetroot is a perennial woodland herb in the carrot family, native to western and northern North America and parts of South America. It does best in cool, shaded, moist woodland conditions.

Family
Apiaceae (Carrot family)
Grows as
Perennial
Light
Part shade, Shade
Water
Keep soil consistently moist, especially in summer.
Soil
Moist, humus-rich woodland soil.
Temperature
Cool to temperate; hardy in cold winters.
How easy
Moderate
Native range
Subarctic America to N., W. & C. U.S.A., SC. & S. Chile to S. Argentina
Climate
temperate

About

Osmorhiza depauperata is a species of flowering plant in the carrot family known by the common names bluntseed sweetroot and blunt-fruited sweet-cicely.

Where it grows

The plant is native to much of western and northern North America, as well as parts of South America. It grows in wooded areas.

Other Osmorhiza plants

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

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Osmorhiza depauperata 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.

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