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        Species - Purple Sweet-cicely - Osmorhiza purpurea

Purple Sweet-cicely - Osmorhiza purpurea

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Native Species

Global Rank: G5
State Rank: SNR
C-value: 6

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General Description

Stems erect, often branched above, 15–30 cm. Herbage glabrous to sparsely hirsute, non-aromatic. Leaves biternate; leaflets coarsely toothed to incised, 1–6 cm long. Umbels: peduncles becoming 2–8 cm long; rays ascending, 2–5 cm long; involucre and involucel absent. Flowers white; stylopodium discoid. Mericarps hispid, linear-oblong, 8–10 mm long, concavely narrowed to the tip (Lesica et al. 2012. Manual of Montana Vascular Plants. BRIT Press. Fort Worth, TX).

Species Range

Montana Range Range Descriptions

Native

Range Comments

AK to CA, ID and MT (Lesica et al. 2012. Manual of Montana Vascular Plants. BRIT Press. Fort Worth, TX).

Observations in Montana Natural Heritage Program Database

Number of Observations: 90

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Relative Density

Recency

(Observations spanning multiple months or years are excluded from time charts)

Habitat

Moist coniferous forest, thickets, often along streams; valleys, montane (Lesica et al. 2012. Manual of Montana Vascular Plants. BRIT Press. Fort Worth, TX).

Ecology

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).

References

Literature Cited AboveLegend: View Online Publication
- Colla, S.R. and S. Dumesh. 2010. The bumble bees of southern Ontario: notes on natural history and distribution. Journal of the Entomological Society of Ontario 141:39-68.
- Lesica, P., M.T. Lavin, and P.F. Stickney. 2012. Manual of Montana Vascular Plants. Fort Worth, TX: BRIT Press. viii + 771 p.
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- Forcella, F. 1977. Flora, chorology, biomass and productivity of the Pinus albicaulis-Vaccinium scoparium association. M.S. Thesis. Bozeman, MT: Montana State University. 99 pp.
- Lesica, P., M.T. Lavin, and P.F. Stickney. 2022. Manual of Montana Vascular Plants, Second Edition. Fort Worth, TX: BRIT Press. viii + 779 p.
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Citation for data on this website:
Purple Sweet-cicely — Osmorhiza purpurea. Montana Field Guide. Montana Natural Heritage Program. Retrieved on April 23, 2024, from https://FieldGuide.mt.gov/speciesDetail.aspx?elcode=PDAPI1K080