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Sanicula bipinnatifida
Also called Shoe Buttons, Purple Snakeroot, Purple Black Snakeroot
Sanicula bipinnatifida is a species of flowering plant in the parsley family known by the common names purple sanicle, purple black-snakeroot, and shoe buttons.
Sanicula bipinnatifida is native to the west coast of North America from British Columbia to Baja California, where it can be found in many types of habitat, including grassland, woodlands, and mountain slopes of serpentine soils. In Canada, it is a threatened species under the Species At Risk Act, and found only in 20 extant locations on southern Vancouver Island and the surrounding Gulf Islands.
Sanicula epipactis · Footsteps of spring · Sharptooth blacksnakeroot · Azores Sanicle · Poison sanicle · Canadian blacksnakeroot · Pacific blacksnakeroot · Wood sanicle · Northern sanicle · Hoffmann's blacksnakeroot · Coastal blacksnakeroot · Maryland sanicle
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Sanicula bipinnatifida 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.
