Osmorhiza chilensis (syn: Osmorhiza berteroi)
Mountain Sweet Cicely

Family: Apiaceae (Carrot family)

Photo taken at Leavenworth Ski Hill, shaded wooded area

Flowers:

peduncle 5 to 25 cm; 3 to 8 rays, 2 to 12 cm long, spreading-ascending; pedicels 1 to 5 mm; white flowers

Fruit:

dry schizocarp linear-fusiform or linear-oblong, 12 to 25 mm long; stylopodium more or less conic; ribs bristly

Leaves:

blade 4 to 20 cm wide, twice ternate; leaflets 2 to 8 cm, serrate to irregularly lobed

Plant:

perennial; almost glabrous to finely hairy. Roots eaten by the Okanagan and the Thompson.

Habitat:

woodlands, sea level to middle elevations

Distribution of species:

Alaska to California, east to eastern North America and South America

Distribution of genus:

more or less 10 species: North and South America, east and south Asia

More information about this plant:

Flora Northwest