Sanicula bipinnatifida (Purple Sanicle)

3/12/17 Vernal Pool Trail, Santa Rosa Plateau Ecological Reserve,

Murrieta, SW Riverside County, CA

3/23/02 Vernal Pool Trail, Santa Rosa Plateau Ecological Reserve, Riverside County, CA

3/23/02 Vernal Pool Trail, Santa Rosa Plateau Ecological Reserve

LIFE LIST NOTES:

COMMON NAME: Purple Sanicle

SPECIES: Sanicula bipinnatifida

FAMILY: Apiaceae (Carrot Family)

LIFE LIST DATE: 3/23/2002

LOCATION: Vernal Pool Trail, Santa Rosa Plateau Ecological Reserve, SW Riverside County, CA

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Treatment from The Jepson Manual (1993):

Plant 12–60 cm, taproot

Leaf simple, 1–2-pinnately dissected, green, glaucous, or purplish; blade 4–19 cm, oblong-ovate to ± round, main divisions generally 7 or more, generally narrow, coarsely toothed

Inflorescence: peduncle 0.5–16 cm; bracts 6–8, 2.5 mm, lanceolate, slightly fused at base, < heads; pedicel of bisexual flower 0, of staminate 2 mm, < fruit

Flowers: bisexual 8–10; staminate 10–12; calyx lobes 0.8–1 mm, widely lanceolate, acute, slightly fused at base; corolla purple or yellow; styles 2 X calyx lobes

Fruits 3–8 per head, 3–6 mm, ovate to round, with stout, curved, inflated, bulbous-based prickles

Seed: face concave

Ecology: Open grassland, often serpentine, or pine/oak woodland

Elevation: 20–1200 m.  

Bioregional distribution: Northwestern California, Sierra Nevada Foothills, Central Western California, Southwestern California 

Distribution outside California: to British Columbia, Baja California

Horticultural information: SUN: 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24.