Flora
of East-Central Indiana
| Cluster Sanicle |
| Scientific Name | Sanicula gregaria E. Bickn. |
| Family Name | Apiaceae (Parsley/Carrot Family) |
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| general habit | general form | leaves | umbels/single flower |
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| Habitat: | rich, open woods and thickets |
| Plant Height: | 30-90 cm, erect stem |
| Flower Color: | greenish yellow |
| Flower: | staminate flowers 12-15 per umbellet with 5 stamens, surpassed by fruits; perfect flowers resemble staminate flowers with slightly longer stamens, 2 spreading styles |
| Inflorescence: | compound umbels of staminate and perfect flowers, umbellets subtended by minute bracts |
| Fruit: | stalked with persistent styles longer than the bristles |
| Leaves: | basal leaves on long petiole with cauline leaves becoming sessile, palmately compound usually with 5 serrated leaflets |
| Bloom Time: | April-June |
| Origins: | native |
| Other: | forms clumps of stems from fibrous roots |
