Sanicula bipinnata Hook. & Arn.

Sanicula bipinnata H. & A. Bot. Beech. Voy. 347. 1838
Sanicula pinnalifida Torr. U. S. Expl. Exp. 17: 314. 1874.
Plants erect, 1-6 dm. high, perennial from an elongate fusiform root, the stem slender, the herbage strongly aromatic; leaves linear-oblong to ovate in general outline, excluding the petioles 3.5-8.5 cm. long, 3-3.5 cm. broad, 2-3-pinnate, the ultimate divisions obovate to oblong, 4—10 mm. long, 2-11 mm. broad, distinct, entire to lobed, serrate; petioles wholly sheathing; eauline leaves with linear ultimate divisions; involucre of leaflike bracts; involucel of several, entire, linear, subscarious, distinct or connate bractlets shorter than the heads; fertile rays 3-5, 1.5-9 cm. long, the umbels axillary and terminal, the umbellets capitate, 3-7 mm. broad; sterile and fertile flowers in the same umbellet; flowers yellow; calyx cleft to below the middle, the lobes deltoid, acute, shorter than the petals; anthers yellow, exserted; styles exceeding the bristles; fruit subglobose to obovoid, 2-3 mm. long, 2-3 mm. broad, shortlypedicellate, tuberculate, the tubercles with short, stout bristles; oiltubes large, 3-5 on the dorsal and lateral surfaces, 2 on the commissure; seed subterete in cross section, the commissural face deeply concave.
Type locality: California, Douglas.
Distribution: Hills and valleys, cismontane California (Baker 4775, Heller 10,707).