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Osmorhiza berteroi DC   (Osmorhiza chilensis H. & A.)                      Mountain Sweet Cicely

Plant mostly glabrous, 3-10 dm tall; leaves biternate; leaflets ovate, acute, thin, coarsely dentate, 2-7 cm long; basal leaves several, petioles long; cauline leaves 1-3; umbels 2-9-rayed, small, peduncles short at flowers, elongating in fruit; pedicels mostly 1-2 cm long; involucels wanting; stylopodium more or less conic, as high or higher than wide; fruit 16-20 mm long, bristly-hairy on the ribs, carpels beaked; in woods, common.

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