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Poison sanicle

Sanicula bipinnata

Poison sanicle
Photo: Ken-ichi Ueda, CC BY 4.0
Family
Apiaceae (Carrot family)
Grows as
Perennial
Safety
Toxic
Native range
W. & SC. California
Climate
temperate

About

Sanicula bipinnata is a species of plant in the family Apiaceae known by the common name poison sanicle. It is endemic to California where it is found in low-elevation mountains and foothills, especially in the hills along the coast. It occurs in the California Coastal Range and Sierra Nevada foothills, including Ring Mountain, California.

Other Sanicula plants

Sanicula epipactis · Footsteps of spring · Sharptooth blacksnakeroot · Azores Sanicle · Purple sanicle · Canadian blacksnakeroot · Pacific blacksnakeroot · Wood sanicle · Northern sanicle · Hoffmann's blacksnakeroot · Coastal blacksnakeroot · Maryland sanicle

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Sanicula bipinnata 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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