Angelica arguta

Angelica, Angelica

Family: Apiaceae · Type: perennial · Native

Angelica is a California native perennial found in the Klamath Ranges and high Cascade Range Highlands in conifer forest at elevations of 60 to 2,300 meters. Flowering from July to August, this plant produces white flowers in umbels with 20 to 60 rays spreading up to 10 centimeters long. Growing up to 2 meters tall with a generally glabrous stem, it develops an impressive, broadly spreading form. Its large leaves are complex and dramatic, measuring up to 1 meter in diameter, with 2 to 3 levels of compound pinnate structure featuring 6 to 9 centimeter leaflets that are lanceolate to elliptic with sharply serrated edges. The fruit is an oblong to ovate structure 8 to 9 millimeters long.

Habitat: Uncommon. Conifer forest

Bloom period: Jul-Aug

Elevation: 60-2300 m

Bioregions: KR, CaRH

California counties: Tehama, Del Norte, Siskiyou, Shasta, Trinity, Humboldt, Mendocino

Data from The California Species Project — 14,000+ California species with verified data from CNPS, CDFW, USFWS, Jepson eFlora, Cal-IPC, and more.