Angelica kingii

King's angelica, King's Angelica, King's angelica, King's angelica

Family: Apiaceae · Type: perennial · Native

Conservation status: CNPS 4.2

King's angelica is a California native perennial found in the White Mountains on subalpine streambanks at elevations of 2,100 to 3,100 meters. Flowering from June to August, this plant produces small white flowers in umbels with 7 to 14 unequal rays extending 0.5 to 10 centimeters long. Growing 30 to 200 centimeters tall with a glabrous to slightly roughened stem, it forms an upright, robust perennial herb. Its large leaves are complex, measuring 15 to 40 centimeters long, with 1-ternate-pinnate structure featuring 3 to 12 centimeter lanceolate leaflets that are entire to sparsely serrate. The fruit is a small, oblong structure measuring 4 to 5 millimeters in length.

Habitat: Subalpine streambanks

Bloom period: Jun-Aug

Elevation: 2100-3100 m

Bioregions: W&ampI (White Mtns)

California counties: Inyo, Mono

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