Apiaceae
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Angelica arguta / Lyall’s angelica
- white to yellow to pink-ish
- compound umbel with teeny individual flowers
- many-toothed compound leaves with sheath surrounding petiole
- leaflets egg-shaped to narrowly oval
- pungent parsley/celery/anise scent when leaves crushed
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Cicuta douglasii / water hemlock
- HIGHLY TOXIC
- primarily on continuously wet soils, e.g. ditches, stream banks, pond margins, marshes.
- white compound umbel inflorescence typical of the Apiaceae/Umbelliferae
- multiply compound leaves with prominent veins ending in notches between lobes
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Heracleum maximum / cow parsnip
- very tall - stands above most other herbs and forbs
- huge leaves with clasping sheaths at the stem junction
- leaves lobed and like a very large maple
- huge flat umbels with white flowers
- grooved, woolly, stout stem
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Ligusticum filicinum / fern-leaf licorice root
- found at higher altitudes in moister, forest areas
- compound umbel with white flowers in comparatively widely spaced umbellets
- large, very finely divided leaves; leaflets long and thin - "fern-like"
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Lomatium dissectum / fernleaf biscuitroot
- blooms soon after snowmelt
- yellow or purple-ish flowers in compound umbels
- highly divided, fern-like leaves
- rocks, rocky soils, sagebrush communities
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Lomatium triternatum / nineleaf biscuitroot
- flowers soon after snowmelt
- yellow compound umbel on leafless stem
- leaves are three-fold compound; leaflets grass-like
- may be tall with wide umbels on good soil
- may be very short with small umbels on rocky, sandy, low nutrient soil
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Osmorhiza spp / sweet cicely
- broad compound, bluntly toothed, fern-like leaves 3 times compoundly divided
- compound umbels of tiny white flowers; May-June
- short, understory herb
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Perideridia montana / Gairdner’s yampah
- white, compound umbel (like all the rest of the family)
- apparently leafless much of the time, especially when blooming
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Zizia aptera / golden Alexanders
- yellow, compound umbel infloresecence
- basal leaves are heart-shaped
- blooms in early to late spring
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