Osmorhiza depauperata

Blunt-fruited sweet-cicely, Blunt-Fruited Sweet-Cicely

Family: Apiaceae · Type: perennial · Native

Conservation status: CNPS 2B.3

Blunt-fruited sweet-cicely is a California native perennial found in the Modoc Plateau in conifer forest and aspen woodland at elevations of 500 to 3,300 meters. Flowering from May to July, this plant produces delicate white flowers in small spreading clusters with rays 3 to 9 centimeters long. Growing 15 to 80 centimeters tall with generally sparsely short-hairy to glabrous stems, it forms an elegant woodland herb. Its large leaves are widely ovate to round, divided into 2 to 3 ternate segments with leaflets 1.5 to 5 centimeters long, coarsely serrate and widely lanceolate to ovate. The distinctive fruit is 10 to 18 millimeters long, club-like, with a short 3 to 8.5 millimeter tail and an obtuse, beakless tip.

Habitat: Conifer forest, aspen woodland

Bloom period: May-Jul

Elevation: 500-3300 m

Bioregions: MP

California counties: Modoc, Sierra, Butte, Siskiyou

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