Angelica californica

California angelica

Family: Apiaceae · Type: perennial · Native

California angelica is a native perennial found in northern California regions including the North Coast Ranges, Cascade Range, northern Sierra Nevada Foothills, and San Francisco Bay Area in dry slopes at elevations of 15 to 1,500 meters. Flowering from June to August, this plant produces white flowers in large, complex umbels with 15 to 50 unequal rays. Growing 1 to 2.5 meters tall with a glabrous to sparsely hairy stem, it develops an impressive, robust structure in dry habitats. Its large compound leaves are triangular-ovate and intricately divided, featuring 1-ternate-pinnate arrangement with 4 to 8 centimeter leaflets that are lanceolate to oblong with sharply serrated edges. The fruit is an oblong to ovate structure approximately 6 to 7 millimeters long.

Habitat: dry slopes

Bloom period: Jun-Aug

Elevation: 15-1500 m

Bioregions: NCoR, CaR, n SNF, SnFrB.

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