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Sanicula saxatilis
Also called Rock Sanicle
Devil's blacksnakeroot is a rare, tuber-forming perennial from the carrot family, native only to the eastern San Francisco Bay Area of California, mainly on rocky chaparral slopes. It is a wild plant rather than a garden favorite, so it is grown mainly by native plant enthusiasts who need sharp drainage and dry summers.
Sanicula saxatilis is a rare species of flowering plant in the parsley family known by the common names devil's blacksnakeroot and rock sanicle.
It is endemic to the eastern San Francisco Bay Area of California. It is known only from Mount Diablo and Mount Hamilton, both in the Diablo Range.
Sanicula epipactis · Footsteps of spring · Sharptooth blacksnakeroot · Azores Sanicle · Poison sanicle · Purple sanicle · Canadian blacksnakeroot · Pacific blacksnakeroot · Wood sanicle · Northern sanicle · Hoffmann's blacksnakeroot · Coastal blacksnakeroot
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Sanicula saxatilis 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.
