Sanicula laciniata Hook. & Arn.

Sanicula laciniata is distributed in California and southern Oregon in the USA. Typical habitats of occurrence are coastal mountain ranges, open or brushy slopes and mixed oak woodland; elevations of occurrence are between thirty to 900 meters.

Also know by its common name, Coastal blacksnakeroot, this species sports a taproot and rises on a slender stem to 30 centimeters in height. Fruits are two to four millimeters across, and range from ovate to nearly spherical.

Sanicula laciniata H. & A. Bot. Beech. Voy. 347. 1838
Sanicula serpentina Elmer, Bot. Gaz. 41: 312. 1906.
Aulosolena laciniata K.-Pol. Bull. Soc. Nat. Mosc. II. 29: 156. 1916.
Sanicula laciniata var. serpentina Jepson, Madrono 1: 113. 1923. Plants erect, 0.9-5 dm. high, perennial from a moderately thickened taproot, glabrous, the stems few, divergent, branching, mostly naked above; leaves ovate in general outline, excluding the petioles 1.5-4 cm. long, 1.5-4.5 cm. broad, palmately 3-lobed or deeply 3-parted or rarely entire, the primary divisions subentire and serrate to pinnately parted into lanceolate, entire or laciniate-dentate segments; petioles shortly sheathing below, 6-12 cm. long; cauline leaves reduced; involucre of leaflike bracts; involucel of oblong-ovate to lanceolate bractlets, shorter than the heads; fertile rays 3-6, 15-80 mm. long, the umbellets capitate, 4-7 mm. broad; sterile and fertile flowers in the same umbellet; fertile pedicels obsolete; flowers yellow; calyx cleft to near the middle, the lobes triangular, acute, shorter than the petals; anthers yellow, exserted; styles exceeding the bristles; fruit subglobose to ellipsoid, about 2 mm. long, 2-4 mm. broad, sessile, the bristles well-developed above, becoming obsolete below; oil-tubes several on the dorsal and lateral surfaces, 2 on the commissure; seed flattened dorsally in cross section, the commissural face sulcate.
Type locality: California, Douglas.
Distribution: Coastal southwestern Oregon and California (Baker 783, Elmer 3531, 449S).

Sanicula laciniata is a flowering plant species of in the family Apiaceae. Common names include coastal blacksnakeroot, laceleaf sanicle, and coast sanicle.

Sanicula laciniata là một loài thực vật có hoa trong họ Hoa tán. Loài này được Hook. & Arn. miêu tả khoa học đầu tiên năm 1839.