Chilean Sweet-cicely - Osmorhiza berteroi
Other Names:
Osmorhiza chilensis
Native Species
Global Rank:
G5
State Rank:
S5
Agency Status
USFWS:
USFS:
BLM:
MNPS Threat Rank:
C-value:
4
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Stems erect, often branched above, 25–80 cm. Herbage glabrous to sparsely hirsute, non-aromatic. Leaves biternate; leaflets coarsely toothed to incised, 2–8 cm long. Umbels: peduncles becoming 10–25 cm long; rays ascending, 3–10 cm long; involucre and involucel absent. Flowers white; stylopodium conic, beak-like. Mericarps erect-hispid, linear-oblong, 11–15 mm long, concavely narrowed to the tip
(Lesica 2012. Manual of Montana Vascular Plants. BRIT Press. Fort Worth, TX).
Lesica (2012) treats this species as
O. chilensis Hook. & Arn., as do many regional treatments.
POLLINATORS The following animal species have been reported as pollinators of this plant species or its genus where their geographic ranges overlap:
Bombus impatiens (Colla and Dumesh 2010).