Comprehensive Description
provided by North American Flora
Angelica dentata (Chapm.) Coult. & Rose, Bot. Gaz. 12:61. 1887
Archangelica dentata Chapm.; T. & G. Fl. N. Am. 1: 622. 1840.
Slender, 3-9 dm. high, the foliage essentially glabrous, the inflorescence more or less scaberulous; leaves deltoid in general outline, excluding the petioles 0.5-1.2 dm. long, biternate or ternate-pinnate, the leaflets ovate to lanceolate, acute to obtuse, sessile, 1-2.5 cm. long, 5-15 mm. broad, sinuate-dentate; petioles slender, 8-20 cm. long, inconspicuously sheathing at the base; cauline leaves similar, reduced above with narrow and often bladeless sheaths, the uppermost petioles wholly sheathing; peduncles slender, 2-5 cm. long; involucre wanting or of a filiform bract; involucel of several filiform, scaberulous bractlets, 3-8 mm. long; rays few, 5-10, spreading-ascending, unequal, 1.5-3 cm. long; pedicels 3-8 mm. long, spreading-ascending; flowers white, the petals obovate, glabrous; ovaries glabrous to scaberulous; stylopodium low-conic; fruit oval, 5-6 mm. long, 4-5 mm. broad, glabrous, the dorsal ribs filiform to narrowly winged, the lateral broader than the dorsal and about equaling the body ; oil-tubes small, continuous about the seed; seed-face plane.
Type locality: "Sandy barrens, Gadsden County, middle Florida," Chapman. Distribution: Pine barrens, Georgia to Florida (Curtiss 1014, 6709).
- bibliographic citation
- 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