''Sanicula laciniata'' is a flowering plant

species In biology, a species is the basic unit of classification and a taxonomic rank of an organism, as well as a unit of biodiversity. A species is often defined as the largest group of organisms in which any two individuals of the appropriate s ...

of in the

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Apiaceae Apiaceae or Umbelliferae is a family of mostly aromatic flowering plants named after the type genus ''Apium'' and commonly known as the celery, carrot or parsley family, or simply as umbellifers. It is the 16th-largest family of flowering plants ...

. Common names include coastal blacksnakeroot, laceleaf sanicle, and coast sanicle.

Distribution and ecology

The species is distributed along the Central and

North Coast Ranges The Coast Ranges of California span from Del Norte or Humboldt County, California, south to Santa Barbara County. The other three coastal California mountain ranges are the Transverse Ranges, Peninsular Ranges and the Klamath Mountains. Phy ...

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, extending into southern

Oregon Oregon () is a U.S. state, state in the Pacific Northwest region of the Western United States. The Columbia River delineates much of Oregon's northern boundary with Washington (state), Washington, while the Snake River delineates much of it ...

. A typical occurrence is on Ring Mountain in

Marin County, California Marin County is a County (United States), county located in the northwestern part of the San Francisco Bay Area of the U.S. state of California. As of the 2020 United States Census, 2020 census, the population was 262,231. Its county seat and ...

, where it occurs in association with the poison sanicle, Pacific sanicle and numerous other

forb A forb or phorb is an herbaceous flowering plant that is not a graminoid (grass, sedge, or rush). The term is used in biology and in vegetation ecology, especially in relation to grasslands and understory. Typically these are dicots without woo ...

s.C. Michael Hogan. 2008

References

External links

''Sanicula''
at the PLANTS database.
Calflora Database: ''Sanicula laciniata'' (Coast sanicle, Coastal blacksnakeroot)

Plants Profile for ''Sanicula laciniata'' (coastal blacksnakeroot)

U.C. Photos gallery of ''Sanicula laciniata''
laciniata Flora of California Flora of Oregon Flora of the Klamath Mountains Natural history of the California chaparral and woodlands Natural history of the California Coast Ranges Flora without expected TNC conservation status {{Apiaceae-stub