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Small Leaf Angelica

Angelica pinnata S. Wats.

Comprehensive Description

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Angelica pinnata S. Wats. Bot. King's Expl. 126. 1871
Angelica leporina S. Wats. Proc. Am. Acad. 12: 252. 1877.
Slender, 2.5-9 dm. high, the foliage scaberulous to glabrate, the inflorescence scaberulous; leaves oblong to oval in general outline, excluding the petioles 5-17 dm. long, 5-17 dm. broad, pinnate to incompletely bipinnate, the leaflets lanceolate to ovate-lanceolate, acute, sessile or short-petiolulate, 3-9 cm. long, 0.5-3 cm. broad, serrate to rarely entire; petioles 0.4-2 dm. long, sheathing at the base; cauline leaves similar, the uppermost petioles wholly sheathing; peduncles slender, 1-7.5 dm. long; involucre wanting or of a sheathlike bract; involucel wanting; rays few, 6-25, ascending to spreading-ascending, unequal, 1-7.5 (or 10) cm. long, webbed; pedicels 3-8 mm. long, spreading-ascending, webbed; flowers white or pinkish, the petals obovate, glabrous; ovaries sparingly hispidulous; stylopodium conic; fruit nearly orbicular, 3-6 mm. long, glabrous, the dorsal ribs narrowly winged, the lateral broader than the dorsal and about equaling the body; oil-tubes solitary or occasionally a pair in the intervals, several on the commissure ; seed-face slightly concave.
Type locality: Uinta Mountains, Utah, 2400 m., Walson 458.
Distribution: Wyoming and Colorado to Utah and New Mexico (Payson & Pay son 2S60, 4098, E. Palmer 183).
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Albert Charles Smith, Mildred Esther Mathias, Lincoln Constance, Harold William Rickett. 1944-1945. UMBELLALES and CORNALES. North American flora. vol 28B. New York Botanical Garden, New York, NY
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