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Rose Angelica

Angelica roseana Hend.

Comprehensive Description

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Angelica roseana Henderson, Contr. U. S. Nat. Herb. 5:201. 1899
Rompelia Roseana K.-Pol. Bull. Soc. Nat. Mosc. II. 29: 125. 1916.
Low and stout, 3-8.5 dm. high, the foliage and inflorescence scaberulous to puberulent or glabrate; leaves deltoid in general outline, excluding the petioles 5-30 cm. long, 1-3-ternate or ternate-pinnately divided, the leaflets ovate to lanceolate, acute or obtuse, strongly reticulate 1-7 cm. long, 5-30 mm. broad, mucronate-dentate to spinulose-dentate; petioles 0.5-2.5 dm long, sheathing at the base; cauline leaves similar, reduced above with large elongated and inflated sheaths, the uppermost petioles wholly sheathing; peduncles stout, 5-20 cm. long involucre wanting, or occasionally of a few filiform or foliaceous bracts; involucel of a few filiform or linear, scaberulous bractlets, 1.5-16 mm. long; rays 15-35, spreadingascending unequal, 3-13 cm. long, webbed; pedicels slender, spreading-ascending, 5-11 mm. long, webbed exceeding the fruit; flowers white or pink, the petals oval, glabrous; ovaries scabrous; stylopodium conic; fruit oblong, 4—7 mm. long, 3-4 mm. broad, scaberulous, the dorsal ribs narrowly winged, the lateral broader than the dorsal; oil-tubes solitary in the intervals, 4 on the commissure; seed-face plane to slightly concave.
Type locality: "Banks of dried, gravelly rills, foothills of the Lost River Mountains," near Salmon, Fremont County, Idaho, Henderson 4065.
Distribution: Mountains, Montana and Colorado to Idaho and northern Utah (Payson &•
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Albert Charles Smith, Mildred Esther Mathias, Lincoln Constance, Harold William Rickett. 1944-1945. UMBELLALES and CORNALES. North American flora. vol 28B. New York Botanical Garden, New York, NY
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