Angelica tomentosa

Woolly angelica

Family: Apiaceae · Type: perennial · Native

Woolly angelica is a California native perennial found in the Klamath Ranges, northern coastal California, Channel Islands, San Gabriel Mountains, San Bernardino Mountains, and Peninsular Ranges in generally wooded areas at elevations of 30 to 2,400 meters. Flowering from June to August, this plant produces white flowers in large umbrella-like clusters with 20 to 60 rays. Growing 70 to 200 centimeters tall with glaucous, smooth to hairy stems, it develops complex, broad triangular-ovate leaves divided into multiple layers of pinnate leaflets. Its leaves are intricately structured with 2 to 3 levels of divisions, featuring leaflets 2 to 12 centimeters long that are lanceolate to ovate, with sharply pointed tips and sometimes serrated edges. The fruit is a small, oblong to ovate structure 6 to 10 millimeters long.

Habitat: Generally wooded areas

Bloom period: Jun-Aug

Elevation: 30-2400 m

Bioregions: KR, NCoR, CW (exc SCoRI), SnGb, SnBr, PR

California counties: Humboldt, Los Angeles, Riverside, San Bernardino, San Diego, Lake, Trinity, Marin, Napa, Colusa, Sonoma, Mendocino, Siskiyou, Glenn, Santa Cruz, San Mateo, Santa Clara, Santa Barbara, Del Norte, Shasta, Tulare, Kern, Alameda

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