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Maryland Black Snakeroot - Sanicula marilandica
Native Species
Global Rank:
G5
State Rank:
S4
C-value:
5
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General Description
Fibrous-rooted. Stems solitary, erect, 30–80 cm. Leaves petiolate below, sessile above; blades reniform in outline, 6–20 cm wide, palmate; leaflets 5- to 7-lobed and/or coarsely toothed, 3–10 cm long. Umbel: peduncle 4–15 cm long; rays 1–5 cm long; involucel bracts oblanceolate, 1–2 mm long. Flowers greenish white. Mericarps 4–7 mm long (
Lesica et al. 2012. Manual of Montana Vascular Plants. BRIT Press. Fort Worth, TX).
Species Range
Montana Range
Range Descriptions
Native
Range Comments
BC to NL south to WA, NM, NE and FL (Lesica et al. 2012. Manual of Montana Vascular Plants. BRIT Press. Fort Worth, TX).
Observations in Montana Natural Heritage Program Database
Number of Observations: 115
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Relative Density
Recency
(Observations spanning multiple months or years are excluded from time charts)
Habitat
Meadows, willow thickets, moist woodlands, open forest; plains, valleys, lower 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 bifarius (Thorp et al. 1983).
References
- Literature Cited AboveLegend:
View Online Publication- Lesica, P., M.T. Lavin, and P.F. Stickney. 2012. Manual of Montana Vascular Plants. Fort Worth, TX: BRIT Press. viii + 771 p.
Thorp, R.W., D.S. Horning, and L.L. Dunning. 1983. Bumble bees and cuckoo bumble bees of California (Hymenoptera: Apidae). Bulletin of the California Insect Survey 23:1-79.
- Additional ReferencesLegend: View Online Publication
Do you know of a citation we're missing?- DuBois, K.L. 1979. An inventory of the avifauna in the Long Pines of Southeastern Montana. M.Sc. Thesis. Bozeman, MT: Montana State University. 113 p.
- 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.
- Wood, A.K. 1987. Ecology of a prairie mule deer population. Ph.D. Dissertation. Bozeman, MT: Montana State University. 205 p.
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