Angelica callii

Call's angelica, Call's angelica, Call's angelica

Family: Apiaceae · Type: perennial · Native

Conservation status: CNPS 4.3

Call's angelica is a native perennial found in southern Sierra Nevada Mountains in Tulare and Kern counties, growing along streambanks in conifer forest at elevations of 1,000 to 2,000 meters. Flowering from June to July, this plant produces white flowers in complex umbels with 25 to 50 spreading rays. Growing one to two meters tall with a generally roughened texture, it develops erect stems with a robust, branching structure. Its large leaves are complex, featuring one to four decimeters of ovate, ternate-pinnate foliage with sharply serrate leaflets three to thirteen centimeters long. The fruit is an oblong to obovate structure three and a half to five millimeters long, with thick marginal ribs.

Habitat: Streambanks in conifer forest

Bloom period: Jun-Jul

Elevation: 1000-2000 m

Bioregions: s SNH (Tulare, Kern cos.).

California counties: Tulare, Kern, Fresno

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