bland sweet cicely

not listed

N5 - Secure

SNR - Unranked

not listed

FACU - Facultative upland

FACU - Facultative upland

FACU - Facultative upland

The stems are hairy. The plant has no discernable anise odor.

In early spring the young stems are densely covered with short, spreading, white hairs.

The styles are shorter than the petals, no more than 1.5mm long.

In the inflorescence is an umbrella-like flower cluster (umbel). At the end of each stem in the umbel is another, smaller umbel (umbellet), on which the flowers occur. There is a whorl of bracts beneath the umbellet.

12″ to 36″

White

Aniseroot (Osmorhiza longistylis)roots have a strong, sweet, anise-like fragrance. Hairs on the stem are shorter and shaggy. Crushed foliage has an anise-like fragrance. Umbels are dense and crowded. There are 9 to 18 flowers per umbellet. Flowers are larger, 3⁄16″ to ¼″ (5 to 6 mm) in diameter. The style plus stylopodium is longer, 1⁄16″to ⅛″ (2.0 to 3.6 mm) long. Significantly more flowers and larger, dense, crowded umbellets combine to make the inflorescence much showier.

Blunt sweet cicely (Osmorhiza depauperata) has no whorl of bracts beneath the secondary umbel.

Moist. Woods. Partial sun to full shade.

May to June

Sources

2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 28, 29, 30.

Native

Common

Plant

Compound Leaf

Inflorescence

Infructescence