Trautvetteria caroliniensis

Carolina bugbane

Family: Ranunculaceae · Type: perennial · Native

Carolina bugbane is a California native perennial found in the Klamath Ranges and northern California Mountains in moist, shaded places and streambanks at elevations of 640 to 2,100 meters. Flowering from July to August, this plant produces white-green flowers in small clusters with delicate, cup-like sepals. Growing impressively tall at 1 to 1.5 meters with generally glabrous stems, it develops a striking vertical form. Its large basal leaves have 5 to 11 wedge-shaped lobes with teeth near the tips, supported by long petioles up to 45 centimeters long. The plant produces small, 4-angled fruits approximately 2.5 to 4.5 millimeters long.

Habitat: Moist, shaded places, streambanks

Bloom period: Jul-Aug

Elevation: 640-2100 m

Bioregions: KR, CaR (uncommon), SNH

California counties: Fresno, Butte, Calaveras, Del Norte, Humboldt, Plumas, Trinity, Siskiyou, Yuba

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