Hulten's Licorice Root

Ligusticum hultenii Fernald, Rhodora 32: 7. 1930
Slender, caulescent, sparingly branched, 1-6 dm. high, glabrous throughout; leaves orbicular or elliptic in general outline, excluding the petioles 6-12 cm. long, 6-14 cm. broad, 2-ternate, the leaflets obovate, obtuse at the apex, often cuneate at the base, distinct, sessile, 2-5 cm. long, 1-3 cm. broad, crenate to coarsely serrate and occasionally incised; petioles 6-20 cm. long; cauline leaves like the basal, more coarsely toothed; peduncles alternate, 8-20 cm. long; involucre of 2-4 linear to lanceolate bracts, 5-12 mm. long; involucel of more numerous but similar bractlets, 3-9 mm. long, shorter than the flowers and fruit; rays 9-16, stout, spreadingascending, 1.5-3 cm. long; pedicels slender, spreading-ascending, 4-8 mm. long; calyx-teeth evident; flowers white or pinkish; fruit oblong, 7-8 (10?) mm. long, 2.5-3 mm. broad, nearly terete, the ribs narrowly winged; oil-tubes apparently solitary in the intervals, 2-4 on the commissure; seed flattened dorsally in cross section, channeled under the tubes, the face sulcate.
Type locality: Nazan Bay, Atka, Alaska, Van Dyke 238.
Distribution: Coast of Alaska and British Columbia (Funston 70. Johnston &* Palmer S).