Turkey Pea

Sanicula tuberosa Torr. Pacif. R. R. Rep. 4 1 : 91. 1857
Hesperogeton tuberosum K.-Pol. Bull. Soc. Nat. Mosc. II. 29: 157. 1916.
Plants erect or spreading, 1-7.5 dm. high, perennial from small, globose tubers 5-15 mm. in diameter, the nodes and summit of the peduncles scaberulous, otherwise glabrous, the stem simple, or divided near the base into divergent branches, each dichotomously or trichotomously branched above; leaves ovate to deltoid in general outline, excluding the petioles 2-13 cm. long, 2.5-8 cm. broad, 1-2-ternate, then pinnate, usually finely dissected, the ultimate divisions acute; petioles 2-8 cm. long; cauline leaves becoming subsessile upward; involucre similar to the upper cauline leaves; involucel of small, ovate to lanceolate, connate bractlets; fertile rays 3, unequal, 5-85 mm. long; sterile and fertile flowers in the same umbellet, the sterile on pedicels 2-7 mm. long; flowers yellow; calyx cleft to the middle, the lobes triangular-ovate, acute, shorter than the petals; anthers yellow, exserted; styles conspicuously spirally coiled, greatly exceeding the calyx; fruit ellipsoid, narrowed at the apex, 1.5-2 mm. long, 2-3 mm. broad, sessile or subsessile, tuberculate with inflated, unarmed tubercles; oil-tubes several on the dorsal and lateral surfaces, 2 on the commissure; seed subterete in cross section, the commissural face plane to slightly concave, the scar linear.
Type locality: Hillsides. Duffield's Ranch, Sierra Nevada, California, Bigelow. Distribution: Southwestern Oregon to southern California (Elmer 3912, Heller 692S, 14,568).