Sanicula laciniata Hook. & Arn.

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).